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India: Strengthening cultural identity

Several children are drawing at a table

Latha Madhusudhan is the founder of the Prakriti Waldorf Kindergarten in Bengaluru, as well as a co-founder and core member of the Sadhana Waldorf Kindergarten Association in India. For many years, she has been passionately committed to an educational approach that takes the lived reality of Indian…

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Ahr Valley: A Safe Place When Everything Is Shaken – Emergency Pedagogy at the Waldorf Kindergarten Pusteblume After the Flood

Three boys sitting on a bench

The Waldorf Kindergarten Pusteblume is located in Grafschaft-Oeverich in northern Rhineland-Palatinate. Since 1995, children between the ages of two and six have been accompanied here by three early childhood teachers in a small, family-like group of around 25 children. Everyday life is shaped by…

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Ivory Coast: Growing despite the challenges

Children playing in Cote d'Ivoire

Wafoundani Virginio Silue is the head of the nursery school L’École des Enfants in Bouaké (Ivory Coast). Since 2018, he and his team have been committed to an educational approach that provides children with a safe, warm and vibrant environment in which to develop. His experiences range from the…

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Chile: A place where nature education comes to life

Kids are playing at the river

María Paz Dörr Bulnes is a doctor specialising in child development support and anthroposophical medicine. For several years, she has been supporting the team at the La Siembra kindergarten in the O’Higgins region of Chile. Through her medical and educational work, she has gained a deep insight into…

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Iraq: Strong Motivation Among Emergency Pedagogues at "Island of Hope"

Island of Hope team in Kurdistan/Iraq

In early February, Lina Bäuerle and Fabian Krämer from the Emergency Pedagogy team of the Friends of Waldorf Education traveled to Kurdistan in Northern Iraq for a week to visit their project partner, Island of Hope. For over ten years, the core team of Hishyar, Ali, and Hazhar has been working with…

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South Africa: Project trip to the ‘oasis’ that is the Hermanus Waldorf School with its newly introduced TVET College

Computer lessons at Waldorf School Hermanus South Africa

The Hermanus Waldorf School is attended by numerous children from the surrounding townships of Zwelihle and Mount Pleasant. When the school was founded in 1994, it had a clear vision of inclusion and equal opportunities – regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, or economic background. At the…

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Kenya: Handover of keys to the school team

Handover of keys to the school team Waldorf School Mbagathi

The Rudolf Steiner School in Mbagathi has completed its much-needed staff accommodation project. Following an unexpected setback, construction was delayed by almost a year. Now, some staff members will be able to move into the new accommodation on campus.

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Turkey: Breaking the ‘silence’: emergency pedagogical support for young children following the earthquake

Child Protection Centre Turkey

Shortly after the earthquake that severely affected parts of Turkey and Syria in 2023, the Friends of Waldorf Education began implementing emergency pedagogical measures. The Turkish Waldorf teacher Cansu Kaygısız Vardar, who is currently also writing her doctoral thesis in the field of early…

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Georgia: Building bridges for special children at the Michael School in Tbilisi

Children with disabilities at the Waldorf School in Georgia celebrate Christmas

Janette Gülker-Neuhaus is a German teacher and a special needs teacher who has been committed to Waldorf education and inclusive education for many years. She was a member of the school management team at the Freie Waldorfschule Everswinkel and has been volunteering for many years at the Michael…

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Kenya: Waldorf pupils from Ismaning at the Mbagathi Rudolf Steiner School

Children at a Waldorf school in Kenya run out of the school building.

Pupils Lelia, Paulina and Kubilay from the Waldorf School in Ismaning near Munich spent three weeks at the Mbagathi Rudolf Steiner School in Nairobi to take part in various practical and educational activities.

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