WOW-Year: The relay continues

Since summer several schools have already completed stages of the pan-German relay, which will reach its end in Berlin in September, as part of the grand celebrations for the centenary of Waldorf Schools. The Waldorf School in Oldenburg reports on its relay, which the students turned into a…
Learn moreOut now: our latest issue of Waldorf Worldwide

With the latest issue of “Waldorf Worldwide” we step into the centenary year 2019: 100 years of Waldorf Schools. For more than 40 years, the Friends of Waldorf Education have been supporting the foundation of new schools around the world. In our work, we often get to witness the exceptional energy…
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In the hot September sun, the students of the fourth grade, dressed in yellow or red T-shirts, gather for the physical education lesson. As in the other Waldorf schools in the new federal state of Telangana (until recently part of Andra Pradesh), the students of the Diksha Waldorf School wear this…
Learn moreEscola Waldorf Miguel Arcanjo

Like so many other Waldorf Schools, the Waldorf School in Belo Horizonte, the largest city in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais with a population of two and a half million, gets its name from the Archangel Michael. It is the third or fourth Waldorf School in the city. It was founded in 2011,…
Learn moreEducation needs nourishment: École du Village in Haiti
Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere. "The children who come to our school live in very difficult situations," explains school founder Myriam Silien, "there is a lack of everything or almost everything, especially food, without which the soul has no earthly place to…
Learn moreWaldorf100 – Preserving Ashes or Lighting Fires?

This question will be discussed by the representatives of the parents' councils at the next conference of the European Network of Steiner Waldorf Parents (ENSWaP). After the last conferences in Latvia, Hungary, and Italy, the ENSWaP conference in the upcoming anniversary year will take place from…
Learn moreMedical Care at Shanti School

In 1992, the initiative began with 13 patients. Today, it unites, under the name of Shanti Sewa Griha, a multitude of institutions that perform social work for the people on the margins of Nepalese society: poor people, lepers, and people with disabilities. Over time, workshops, a clinic, a soup…
Learn moreA look back at WOW-Day 2017

Thank you for your commitment on WOW-Day 2017! Find a collection of thank you letters from around the world here.
Learn moreDarbari Waldorf School continues to grow

Founded in 2016, the Waldorf School in Darbari, a village in the Thar Desert near the town of Jaisalmer, continues to grow. Since the beginning of the new school year, the school now comprises four classes. Accordingly, the community extended the building of the small school, which is mainly…
Learn moreDevastating catastrophe in Indonesia
Last Friday's severe earthquake and tsunami brought death and destruction to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. In order to support the traumatised people in coping with their experiences, an emergency pedagogical mission took place in the crisis region in November.The tidal wave was triggered on…
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