For the past few years, the Waldorf teacher training at the Rudolf Steiner School Mbagathi has been constantly growing, while attracting an increasing number of teachers from the surrounding regions. The school is situated right at the boundary of the Nairobi National Park.

As the teacher training in Kenya gains more and more attention, the friends of Waldorf Education have decided to fund a centre for teacher training and housing for lecturers. The training courses are being conducted by Peter van Alphen and Ann Sharfman from South Africa and generate a lot of interest. These courses not only educate new teachers but also promote the work of current teachers with new educational impulses. Through the cross-regional work, more educationally interested people from the surrounding countries look at Waldorf pedagogy.

In February 2011 there was a conference on East African cooperation at Hekima Waldorf School in Tanzania. Parents, teachers and friends from all over East Africa attended, to discuss new methods of Waldorf education under the topic “Inspire children to learn”. More