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The second youth conference SGAIAR took place at the Pestalozzi Children's Village from November 25 to 29, 2024. 63 young people from three schools in the canton of St. Gallen experienced a week full of discussions and solutions to social challenges.

More co-determination, voting from the age of 12, less homework - children demand their rights at the children's conference!

November 20th is International Children's Rights Day. To mark this day, the SKP, together with three Swiss organizations, has published new educational material entitled "Children's Rights: Do you know them?".

Discover the power of solidarity! On our platform we connect people who are committed to a fairer world. Together we support social projects and set an example for charity and community.

On Sunday, August 11th, we celebrated our annual summer festival. In addition to the varied programme and the 40th anniversary of the country office in Ethiopia, a local hero surprised the guests: Marius Bear played a concert in the shade of the trees.

At the end of June 2024, one of our projects in Honduras was successfully completed across 47 schools. The aim was to facilitate school attendance for children and adolescents in difficult living conditions in the Central District.

The Ministry of Education in Guatemala has introduced a new strategy to facilitate reading and writing for primary school children. This nationwide strategy has been implemented with our and our partner organisation's significant support.

In 1950, a significant wish of the founder Walter Robert Corti was fulfilled at the Pestalozzi Children's Village: the first issue of the children's village magazine went to print.

The current magazine not only contains exciting stories from all our project regions, you will also find facts and figures about our year 2023.