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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.

The Easter brunch on March 31, 2024 at the Pestalozzi Children's Village will be remembered not only for the family atmosphere and the varied program, but also for the large number of visitors. A sold-out event with 100 guests.

At the same time as the European Youth Forum Trogen, 15 youth workers from different countries came together in the Children's Village to discuss methodologies and best practices and create valuable synergies.

From February to the end of October, the Forum Schweizer Geschichte Schwyz is showing the exhibition "Working Children", which looks at the various aspects of children's work in the 19th and 20th centuries. Our child Justice is part of the exhibition and stands as a heroine for children's rights in Switzerland.