Despite the school closures and other hurdles due to the Corona virus restrictions, a great many committed students and teachers have already participated in WOW-Day 2020. It has been an extraordinary year requiring extraordinary and creative ideas for action. Sponsored runs in small groups, making…

At the end of November 2020, during the Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Waldorf Education, a Supervisory Board was elected for the first time. It consists of Fiona Jaffke, Constanza Kaliks and Michael Zech, as well as Florian Osswald, Andreas Schubert and Henning Kullak-Ublick, the latter…

The whole world is talking about and living with the Corona Crisis. In some parts of the world, the effects of the pandemic and the accompanying restrictions are compounded by other problems: wars as well as natural and man-made disasters lead to many refugees and severe emergencies. We would be…

The Liceul Teoretic Waldorf School in Chișinău, the capital of the Republic of Moldova, is constructing a new building to create space for more pupils. With the expansion to a two-form entry, the school can also obtain recognition as a grammar high school.

Two years ago, the first Waldorf kindergarten was opened in the Georgian town of Batumi. In a letter to the Friends of Waldorf Education, the project team reports on the initial phase, beginning in a rented flat, the plans to build a school and the difficult time during the Corona crisis.

In autumn each year, pupils raise funds for Waldorf schools, Waldorf kindergartens and therapeutic education institutions around the world as part of our WOW-Day campaign. With our WOW-Day projects we introduce you to institutions that urgently need these donations. This time we take you to Myanmar,…

All over the world, for much of this year, people's everyday lives have been impacted by the effects of the Corona pandemic. For many Waldorf Schools, Waldorf Kindergartens and therapeutic education institutions in our worldwide movement the adverse effects are threatening their very existence. Our…

As part of WOW-Day last year, we asked all participating projects to send us one of their favourite fairy tales. Since January we have been publishing one of these fairy tales every month. Now we have arrived at the penultimate fairy tale of the year. A fairy tale about poverty, wealth, arrogance,…

We have reached the halfway point of the action period for WOW-Day (29.09.-29.11.2020). So far, 39 institutions from several countries have registered for WOW-Day. 14 of them have already carried out their creative activities and collected donations of €4,784. A heartfelt thank you for this! We…

In the small town of Hawzien, in the north of Ethiopia, there has been a Waldorf Kindergarten since 2006 and a partner school since September 2014. The parents can only pay symbolic amounts to the school and kindergarten. School founder Atsbaha Gebre-Selassie and his colleagues are almost completely…