In July of 2023, 17 representatives from various South American countries and Spain met in Medellín, Colombia. Our colleague Fiona Bay was also there.

Five years ago, we asked for your help with our appeal, "Education Needs Food", to support those children who do not get enough food at home due to the poverty of their families. Now, in 2023, the issue is, unfortunately, more relevant than ever.

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…