Escuela Caracol is a small Waldorf school with an integrated kindergarten located in San Marcos la Laguna on the beautiful Lake Atitlán. Around 130 children currently attend the school, which was founded in 2007 and is one of the few schools in the region where children are also taught in the Mayan…

The Hekima Waldorf School is located in the Goba district of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, on a spacious campus with coconut palms. Worn paths, washed out by heavy rains, lead to the school building. Founded in 1997, it remains Tanzania’s only Waldorf school. On our behalf, former Waldorf…

In May 2025, the thematic seminar "Grief and Trauma" took place in Ukraine for the second time. It is part of the project "Promoting Resilience through Emergency and Trauma Pedagogy in Ukraine." In a country at war, loss and grief are omnipresent. Participants typically have friends, family members,…

Myanmar, a country with more than a hundred ethnic groups, has been under military rule since 1962. In 2011, a brief phase of democratic reforms began, but it was abruptly ended by a military coup in 2021. Since then, a civil war has been raging. Additionally, at the end of March this year, a…

The Emergency Pedagogy department is virtually inseparable from its work in Lebanon: The idea of emergency pedagogy was first put into practice during the return of Lebanese young people in the summer of 2006. This marked the launch of the Emergency Pedagogy department at Friends of Waldorf…

After the earthquake in Turkey and Syria in February 2023, two educators, Nergiz and Aynur, began providing emergency educational support to children aged three to five in a Child Friendly Space in Hatay, Turkey. Currently, around 16 children take part in activities five days a week. The Child…

At the beginning of this year, Dr. Veronika Mayen, one of our most loyal donors, with whom we had maintained regular contact since 1998, passed away. She was born into a family deeply connected with the ideas and influence of Rudolf Steiner and enjoyed a close relationship with her parents. Nana…

In the week before Easter, music therapist Zeina El Zein from Lebanon, emergency and trauma educator and dance therapist Ahmad Alghariz from Gaza, as well as we, Fabian Krämer and Fiona Bay from Friends Waldorf Education, had the opportunity to work in Egypt for a week with young educators from…

Waldorf teacher Angela Khadka has been in contact with the Friends of Waldorf Education at various levels since the beginning of her studies. She is now a class teacher at a school in Norway and, together with the children in the class, is a class sponsor for the second class at the Rudolf Steiner…

In this issue of Waldorf Worldwide, we look at the development of Waldorf education worldwide, which would not have taken place without Steiner’s impulses. In our current thematic focus starting on page 7, we explore these impulses and look at the diverse development of Waldorf education using five…