Creating a healthy environment
The comprehensive school Jardim do Cajueiro was brought into being in 2006 through a local initiative of parents who wanted a better future for their children. About three-quarters of the children come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The comprehensive school’s mission is to create a healthy environment, particularly for children living in poverty and social exclusion. 

Social work in the North of São Paulo
The children and teenagers joining CREAR are usually familiar with the dramatic results of poverty: alcoholism, violence, drugs, prostitution of under-aged. These are realities of their daily life. The co-workers of the initiative put in a lot of effort and dedication mainly just to give the young people a perspective that all these realities do not necessarily have to be part of daily life.

Creating future in the poor northeast of Brazil
How should young people find their path of life in a society, in which material values ​​are regarded as a higher virtue than education, health or a regular income? The pursuit of wealth too often leads to a violent counter-world, full of theft, drug dealing and prostitution. The initiative Salva Dor tries to counter this fact.

Hope for a better life
In the violent city district of Jardim Boa Vista in Sao Paulo, the dedicated employees of the Associação Comunitaria Micael (ACOMI) try to preserve children and teenagers from the exclusion from society, through complementary school activities following the guidelines of Waldorf education. These include a nursery school and the program "being and becoming."

In the vicinity of the Bandidos Criminales
At the periphery of Colombia's capital Bogota, rural migrants seek a new livelihood under toughest conditions. Right there CES Waldorf helps with tutoring in reading, writing or mathematics, but also with handicraft lessons, music and drama class. Furthermore a doctor treats diseases and effects of malnutrition.

Curative education in Colombia
Since 1997 the Fundación Arca Mundial, a home for people with disabilities, exists in Medellin. Every day 38 people aged between 1 ½ to 28 years have the opportunity to receive education and gain skills such as weaving, baking and carpentry.

A school travels
In the fertile valleys of the Andes, people who still speak the Quechua language and live in traditional clay brick houses continue to maintain their cultural roots. After the severe earthquake of 2007 and the emergency aid of Pro Humanus, the local residents asked the initiative to continue its work in the village schools. Therefore  a traveling school was created, providing a future on the basis of old traditions.

Waldorf education in a poor village in the Andes
In 2004, after 16 years at the Waldorf School in Lima, Lourdes Jibaja gave up her safe and well-paid job in order to follow her strong impulse to make Waldorf education accessible to the poor population. Ever since, there are English classes, afternoon classes and holiday care available in a small village in the Amazon. 

Like a little paradise paradise on Earth
The Rudolf Steiner School Mbagathi, in Nairobi (Kenya), is a growing Waldorf School in the Maasai plains south of Nairobi National Park. Close to the school there is the rapidly growing suburb Ongata Rongai. From all over Kenya, people come to Rongai, searching for work. Recently there has been a new migration of people as a result of the violence after the elections.

With heart and soul
The Goderich Waldorf School in Rokel near Freetown is located in one of the poorest countries on earth. After a long civil war, external peace has returned. Founded by Shannoh Kandoh, the school is an oasis that gives children hope for a better future.

"The long walk to freedom"
In the townships of Cape Town about 50 Educare Centres open their doors every day. Dedicated women, the moms, as they are locally called, collect the children from the street and give them space to play and learn in a world without drugs, crime and violence. WOW-Day donations will allow further teacher training.

Shining eyes in the townships
The Puppetry in Education (PIE) was established in 2001 and has since thrilled more than 9,000 children with puppet performances at the Educare Centres, schools, shelters and churches in the region around Hermanus and the Cape area. The performances were adapted in the languages ​​of the children, i.e. Xhosa, Afrikaans and English.

A township school convinces the parents.
An estimated one million people live in the Township Khayelitsha. Most parents seek a good education for their children - outside the township. But since some time they can find such an education right there. In 1999, the Zenzeleni Waldorf school  was founded. Again and again people are impressed by the demonstrations at the parent meetings or visits to the classes.

Waldorf school in no man's land
In Madietane, a very isolated place in the Limpopo Province, the Lesedi Waldorf School has found its home. 150 children attend the school and the majority of them has a place to live in the initiatives own boarding school. Especially through the boarding school, the children's attendance is made possible, as most parents cannot afford a daily transport from and to school.

We have the chance to live
In 1997 Hekima Waldorf School was founded in Dar es Salaam, now providing an education environment for 150 students. In Tanzania education system so far has been very poor. Large classes with 100 children are not unusual and - though illegal - physical punishment often has not disappeared from the school day. Almost a third of all children obtain no primary school gradution certificate.

A little boy and his new family
TEMI is a community in north-eastern Georgian village Gremi on the edge of the Caucasus. About 70 people aged 0 to 80 years with different fates (the disabled, orphans, people with psychological and social problems ...), form a large family -without any state support.

"It is not even enough just for going to school ..."
The Michael School in Georgia was and still is, the only curative education school, with a clear conception of education, training and social inclusion for children with intellectual and physical development problems. Since an "educational reform", the school's teachers earn only € 26-28 per month - which is not enough even just for the daily ride from and to school!

Learning without anxiety
The Waldorf school in Kishinev was founded in 1992. To date it has remained a state school that has won many negotiations concerning their educational autonomy and successfully implemented state requirements into the Waldorf curriculum. Meanwhile, the kindergarten and the school consist of over 200 students. 

Collective learning for Peace
In Shfa'ram, an Arab town in northern Israel (Galilee), there is an Arab Waldorf initiative since 2004. It consists of a kindergarten and a Waldorf school - the olive tree project. Here in kindergarten and in school Bedouins, Muslims, Christians and Druze meet, play and learn together.

Future prospects for more than 1500 people
Shanti Sewa Griha does social work for people, living at the margins of society: the poor, lepers and people with disabilities. Over time a Waldorf school, a kindergarten, a farm, workshops, a clinic, a soup kitchen and even two villages have developed. Thus more than 1500 people have found protection, care and a meaningful task.

Light for people with with special needs
Since 2001, a centre for social therapy is developing in Lahore with three different workshops: a textile shop, a woodworking shop and an organic bakery. Furthermore there also is a vegetable garden and the beginning of agriculture. The kindergarten and Green Earth School Roshni have a permanent location since 2006 and currently 140 children attend the school.

A grass root school
Gamot means roots, or medicine, Cogon is a grass variety, known for its extensive network of roots and its healing forces. The school began with four children. Meanwhile, the roots have deepened. Over one hundred students, mostly from the rural, economically weak environment attend school on a daily basis.

Forced Relocation
Overall 300 children currently attend the kindergarten, the nursery and the Waldorf School in Khudjand. The work of the Waldorf initiative is highly appreciated, and therefore parents spoke up for the survival of the school even on a political level. Nonetheless, they could not change that public authorities claimed the school building and have forced the initiative to move out.

Waldorf kindergartens in former Saigon
In and around Ho Chi Minh City, there are three Waldorf kindergartens for children, which are supported by the Australian Association Vietnam Children's Project. The Dieu Giac kindergarten was the first to start with 30 children in 2002,  followed by Thanh Lan kindergarten a year later and finally Tho Trang Child Care Center's opened its doors recently in 2006.