When it was established in 1994, the Aregnasan Waldorf School in Yerevan was the first Armenian school with an alternative educational approach. The school still has the status of a private school. However, it is currently struggling to keep up high quality educational conditions in the face [...] After twenty years of silent coexistence, another breakthrough came in 2010, when the first exchange between Waldorf Schools in Armenia and Georgia took place through visits of a delegation of Waldorf teachers and students. As a result of these visits, an exchange project has developed between [...] Please support the school with a donation! Your contribution helps to ensure that the Waldorf school in Yerevan can provide education to more children (also from financially disadvantaged families). And the school would like to build up new workshops in their 160 m2 cellar. For that project they [...] more

Brazil: Casa Querida Criança is a non-profit organization that cares for HIV-positive children, children of HIV-positive parents and their siblings and family. The social project accompanies the families until they can stand on their own feet. Casa Querida Criança currently supports 55 [...]A major success during the last year was working with a motherless family. The mother died after a tragic suicide attempt. Immediately after, Casa Crianca started supporting the family and through a donation the rent expenses were covered, to ensure the family’s survival for the first few months. [...] more

"In the eyes of many ambitious Chinese parents, a lighthearted childhood is being regarded as a waste of time”. Headlines such as this one, regularly appear in articles about the situation of children in China.In the World's largest country in terms of population, children are under enormous [...] more

On 27 September 2012, Waldorf schools worldwide will set everything in motion to ensure that children and young people from financially disadvantaged families in foreign countries may receive vital support. The intend of the campaign for this single day is to bring people together and have them [...] more

Cristi is a student at the Waldorf School in Rosia. He lives alone with his alcoholic father, whom he often has to look after. Sometimes he has to go to work with him. On such days he is missing in school. When he started attending the Rosia Waldorf School, he was an anxious and aggressive child. [...] more

A few weeks ago the new Croatian government has made a commitment to financially support independent education. Although the education budget was cut significantly this year, the Ministry of Education has decided to raise the current support for alternative schools to 30%, which amongst others [...] more

Over thirty years after the military dictatorship under Franco, it seems that independent education strongly blossoms in Spain. So far already seven primary Waldorf schools “Primarias” and one middle-school “Secundaria” have been granted official licenses. The only previously existing Waldorf high [...] more

Beginning of a new Waldorf kindergarten in early 2012 in Harare, Zimbabwe. The founder, a native Zimbabwean woman returned last year from exile in Cape Town. With her she brought back the wish to establish a Waldorf school in Harare. In Cape Town she had met a Zimbabwean Waldorf kindergarten [...] more

On January 12, the state authorities officially accredited the upper school of the Waldorf School in Fujino. The Steiner School in Fujino is thus the first Waldorf school in Japan, whose grade levels 1-12 are acknowledged starting next school year (i.e. from April 2012). This is good news for all [...] more

This year, Honolulu Waldorf School celebrates its 50th Birthday. Located on Oahu Island, in one of the largest cities of the Pacific, the school lies 3,682 km away from the American mainland. Since its foundation in 1961, the school has constantly been growing and now over 300 children from early [...] more

On 24 October 2011 the Friends of Waldorf Education received an urgent call for help. CCE is missing at least € 137,000.  The Centre for Creative Education (CCE) in Cape Town supports approximately 6,000 children in Educare Centres enabling them to grow up in a child-friendly environment. The [...] more

Fighting for a future Project of the Month, November 2011: Dassenberg Waldorf School, South AfricaNorth of Cape Town begins the desert-like area, where nothing grows, as well as the glum suburbs. Even further up north those people have settled, which during apartheid have been displaced from the [...] more

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 [...] more

“Even just being featured on this list would have been a huge success, but being ranked in the top 15 of thousands of Indian day schools is an unexpectedly high achievement for Sloka.” – Nirmala Diaz founder of Sloka The Sloka Waldorf School in Hyderabad was founded in 1997. Just 14 years later [...] more

With shock and deep concern, as well as compassion for the Japanese people, we have followed the news about the devastating disaster that struck the country. So far, we have received several emails with information about the current situation of Waldorf Schools in Japan. Fortunately all these [...] more

    With a fundraising campaign two students at the Rudolf Steiner School in Remscheid/Germany helped to support CES Waldorf in Bogota. After being informed by the Friends of Steiner Education, the students took the initiative to collect financial support for the waldorf project [...] more