In countries like Georgia and Ghana, people with disabilities receive little support. Please help with your donation to maintain the therapeutic educational and social facilities, and thus important pioneering places of life and encounter.

The severe earthquake in February 2023 caused particularly extensive damage in the Turkish province of Hatay. The provincial capital Antakya was largely destroyed by the earthquake. Many people are still living in emergency shelters and tents. Since June 24, an Emergency Pedagogy team of the Friends…

In June, an emergency pedagogical seminar series started for educators, psychologists and social workers who work with young people from vulnerable communities. They are particularly affected by the aftermaths of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the Kenyan village of Sirende, the Humane School has been going through ups and downs for 15 years. After the loss of its last location, the school is starting anew with a few small kindergarten groups on a plot of land purchased especially for it.

Donations that have not been allocated to a specific Waldorf school by our donors regularly flow into the International Waldorf Fund of the Friends of Waldorf Education. Nana Goebel explains how important these free donations are.

The Corona crisis brought many Waldorf schools, Waldorf kindergartens and therapeutic education institutions around the world into great distress . As a general rule, the schools and centres do not receive any state support, and those who had less income due to the pandemic received no public…

The Cosmos Centre, a therapeutic education facility in Dormaa, in western Ghana, has been in existence for over 20 years. Here, 22 children and young people with severe disabilities - only one of them can walk independently - are currently cared for and taught. They receive three warm, healthy meals…

After the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, a  team was able to carry out an acute intervention in the south of Turkey. However, for  security reasons,  it is currently very difficult to enter Syria. We do not yet have a solid network there that would allow us to work directly on the ground. Yet  the…

Qedeli offers 31 people with disabilities a place to live and work. There are several workshops that are geared towards self-sufficiency: gardening, bakery, woodwork, wool-crafts, and also a laundry. They graze their own cows in the surrounding meadows. However, not all costs can be covered; the…

Enabling children to receive an education is one of our noblest tasks. There are many reasons why even today, millions of children are not able to go to school, and thus remain permanently excluded from social life. Of course, children have rights, but they are not respected everywhere. We work to…