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Türkiye: third Emergency Pedagogical intervention

Our third Emergency Pedagogical intervention to Türkiye took place in mid-November 2023. As part of the support for the people affected by the earthquake in Türkiye, our colleague Lina Bäuerle travelled to Hatay in southern Türkiye with a team of 8. She reports for us about the work on site.

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People are tired after almost two years of war: Emergency and Trauma Pedagogy in Ukraine

In November 2023 two new trainings began for 25 participants each in Lviv and Odessa. Over the course of a year in 8 module of 3 days eachs, people from all over Ukraine will come together to receive a training by us in emergency and trauma pedagogy.

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St. Martin's Festival in Odessa 2023

An experience report from our Ukraine Coordinator Jessica Prentice

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School meals: An important part of school life

As most of the pupils at Rudolf Steiner School Mbagathi in Kenya come from families with very low incomes, the school management attaches great importance to providing the children with school meals. Mercy Njoki, a member of the school staff, reports on why this is currently being given a special…

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South Africa: Struggling for an independent curriculum

For almost a year now, the electricity in South Africa is cut off every day. An outdated power grid, but above all corruption and sabotage lead to these daily hour-long power outages. That the high-quality coal is exported, while in the home country only low-grade coal is used to generate…

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School is more than simply lessons: The new Issue of "Waldorf Worldwide"

When we hear the terms “school” and “education”, we first think of classrooms, teachers, learning materials and everything that is needed in the classroom. But school is much more than what happens in class. For some schools, for example, food is a very important part of the school day. Teachers…

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Thailand: Teacher education in Southeast Asia

In March of this year, a new teacher education course was launched for colleagues in Thailand. The venue was the Panyotai Waldorf School on the outskirts of Bangkok.

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Emergency Pedagogical offers for children and adults from the Ahr Valley in Germany

Two years after the flood in the Ahr valley many affected individuals still weren’t able to return to normalcy. We continue to provide on-site Emergency Pedagogical measures. For example, within the scope of a summer program in July. Our colleague Johannes von Mitzlaff reports on the activities…

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In the Wake of the Earthquake in Turkey: Parents Concerned About Their Children's Future

During our second emergency pedagogical intervention in Turkey in June and July, we also worked with parents. Many parents took advantage of the emergency pedagogical sessions offered by Friends of Waldorf Education and shared their experiences, worries, and fears.

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More than a year after the beginning of the war: emergency and trauma pedagogical work in Ukraine

Another intervention in Kyiv by an emergency pedagogical team from Friends of Waldorf Education made it clear, just how important continuous emergency and trauma pedagogical care is within Ukraine.

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