One of the main aims of the Mbagathi Rudolf Steiner School is to offer children from disadvantaged families a future – this applies to the majority of the more than 400 children and young people across ten year-groups, as well as in the nursery. Given that most children’s families are rarely able to…

Zoe Besand is a Waldorf kindergarten teacher and has been a regular volunteer with the educational emergency response teams of The Friends of Waldorf Education for over 13 years, taking part in missions around the world. We asked her to share her impressions with us.

Arefeh Rezvanmanesh works in Iran, a country where political uncertainty and social upheaval shape the daily lives of many families. She and her team founded the Garden of Childhood kindergarten in 2021. Their shared goal was, and remains, to create a place where children can learn and grow in a…

With the Waldorf Climate Balance Fund, the Friends of Waldorf are launching an initiative that combines carbon offsetting with global educational solidarity. The aim is to foster a sense of ecological responsibility and provide practical support for schools through a worldwide network.

Nestled between town and countryside, near Cali, a unique educational setting has emerged that sees itself as an educational village – grounded in Waldorf education, a sense of community, and a strong connection to nature. Camino del Sol supports children up to the age of ten and their families on a…

Nana Gvinjilia, a nursery teacher, works at the Lisi Campus in Tbilisi, a relatively new and growing centre for Waldorf education. The kindergarten is one of the few institutions in Georgia that follows the Waldorf educational approach. Nana has helped shape the development of this centre from the…

Between 22 February and 5 March, the Argentine emergency pedagogy team carried out an intervention in Epuyén, a small town with a population of around 2,400, in the Patagonian Andes region of Argentina. The reason for this was a catastrophic fire that destroyed forests, villages, roads, wildlife and…

The Fiji Islands are characterised by lush rainforests, turquoise lagoons, volcanic mountains and a warm-hearted, culturally diverse population. In the Domain district of the capital, Suva, the country’s only Waldorf initiative to date has been in operation since 2011: the Flametree Kindergarten.…

Even years after the peace agreement in Colombia’s armed conflict between illegal groups and state forces, the situation remains tense, and many people continue to suffer the consequences of violence and displacement. In Sierra Morena, a low-income neighbourhood in the Ciudad Bolívar district of…

The Rio Dulce Waldorf School in the province of Santa Fe grew out of the nursery school of the same name, which was founded around ten years ago. The organisation had been searching for some time for a soziable and affordable plot of land on which to build a primary school when it finally received…