Residential education for Future Leaders
​​Our flagship Future Leaders Programme offers residential scholarships to the brightest children from disadvantaged rural backgrounds. These students receive a high-quality, child-centred education and live in a supportive, nurturing environment on a Pestalozzi Campus.
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Aim: Children are equipped to combine their lived experience of poverty with the education, skills and compassion needed to develop their communities and nations.
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Impact: Nearly 2,700 alumni have graduated the Future Leaders Programme.
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Focus: Academic excellence, social, emotional and ethical well-being, vocational training.
How we make a difference
In the Global South, many children face significant obstacles in accessing quality education. Traditional schooling often fails to develop the leadership skills and critical thinking necessary to drive change in their lives and their communities. The Future Leaders Programme was created to address these gaps, ensuring that these students succeed academically and develop the capacity to uplift their communities.
The children and young people who join our programmes demonstrate exceptional potential despite facing significant challenges. Many are girls and refugees from disadvantaged backgrounds. Our rigorous selection process ensures that we reach those most in need, helping them transform their futures and, in turn, the futures of those around them.
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The Future Leaders Programme equips students with the skills they need to become leaders and changemakers in their communities. Together, we are nurturing the next generation of leaders and changemakers.
Empowering Youth with
Essential Skills
SkillsHub is a multifunctional vocational training facility in Zambia focusing on digital, hospitality and agricultural science skills. The programme equips out of school youth with in-demand vocational skills, enabling them to secure sustainable livelihoods and contribute to their local economies.
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Programmes: Remedial ICT, Maths and Literacy in partnership with Edulution, agriculture, digital skills and more.
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Clients: 880 youths annually from the lowest wealth quintile.
We nurture the moral confidence to turn education into action-a few of our alumni's social impact initiatives
Our Moon
Our Moon is a UK-based grassroots charity on a mission to boost social mobility for high achieving, low income children in Zambia.
Co-founded by Helen Leale-Green and alumnus Justin Mushitu in 2016. Since then, Our Moon has gone from simply supporting students at a government boarding school to building a programme outside of traditional curriculums. Their programmes develop dialogue, critical thinking, self-exploration and presentation skills, preparing them for university.
Edulution
The Edulution model is a unique mix of technology, enterprising coaches, content, and evidence-based analytics that enable learners to revise and master essential numeracy and ICT skills. The catch-up programme puts the learner back on track and helps teachers deliver their school curriculum. The learning curriculum is provided by the Kahn Academy.
Over 55 alumni Edulution coaches have contributed to over 60,000 children being educated in Southern Africa.
Creating Change-Makers
"Growing up in a refugee camp, I faced many challenges. Thanks to Pestalozzi International, I am now an Engineering student and Bezos African Scholar. I want to give back to my community through the power of engineering to create sustainable solutions to the problems they face."
Our alumni are a new generation of teachers, health professionals, entrepreneurs, aid workers, and leaders equipped with the knowledge, compassion, and skills to positively impact their communities. We are creating a trailblazing group of pioneers who inspire those in their communities. Our data demonstrates contributions from our Alumni towards all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
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Stories of Success
Midwife for the Ministry of Health, a Clinical Instructor for General Nursing and Midwifery students, and is a trained Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health Provider.
An interest in science sparked at Pestalozzi Zambia motivated Prisca to do nursing, along with witnessing poor medical treatment provided to her aunt in a rural hospital.
Pestalozzi International is committed to expanding our social impact, focusing on the regions where the need is greatest.
The children and young people who join our programmes demonstrate exceptional potential despite facing significant challenges. Many are girls and refugees from disadvantaged backgrounds. Our rigorous selection process ensures that we reach those most in need, helping them transform their futures and, in turn, the futures of those around them.
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By supporting our expansion efforts, you can help bring holistic education to the children who need it most, enabling them to break the cycle of poverty and become leaders and changemakers in their communities.
