The Carapongo Valley is located in the outlying district of Lurigancho-Chosica, east of the Peruvian capital Lima – a region that is scenically beautiful but also marked by poverty. This is where the Sonqo Kusichiy educational and social project is based. The name comes from the indigenous Quechua…

The small town of Várzea da Roça is located in the hinterland of the Brazilian state of Bahia, about 300 kilometres northeast of the capital Salvador da Bahia. There are limited employment and educational opportunities for the people living here. As a result of this, increasing numbers of people are…

At the end of September, Lina Bäuerle from the Emergency Pedagogy Department of the Friends of Waldorf Education travelled to Myanmar with a team of five for ten days. The earthquake in March shook many regions, destroyed villages, and put many people in acute need. In addition, the country has been…

Since its founding, the Tashi Waldorf School has placed great emphasis on providing a high-quality, holistic, and compassionate education for children from financially and socially disadvantaged backgrounds. It offers an alternative to Nepal’s performance-oriented school system, as well as expensive…

Since 2009, the Emergency Pedagogy department of the Friends of Waldorf Education has been repeatedly active in Gaza. Among other initiatives, we have helped establish and support Child Friendly Spaces and offered training and further education. Since October 2023, only occasional small-scale…

Sirende is located in the highlands of western Kenya, near Mount Elgon, only about 25 kilometres from the Ugandan border. The village belongs to the Kitale district. It was in this area that Juliet Mia, a former employee of the Rudolf Steiner School in Mbagathi, established the Humane School. It was…

When the full-scale invasion began in Ukraine, psychologist Alona Liashenko, pedagogue Hanna Romanova, and coordinator Nataliia Andrushchenko recognized that people with deep emotional wounds needed special approaches for healing. The training in emergency pedagogy offered by the Friends of Waldorf…

The Waldorf school in Horodenka, in western Ukraine, continues to provide refuge for many families who have fled from the eastern regions of the country.

Since the earthquake in Turkey in February 2023, the Emergency Pedagogy department of the Friends of Waldorf Education has been supporting children and young people while at the same time providing advanced training for pedagogues in the field of emergency and trauma pedagogy. Beginning in October…

Friends of Waldorf Education have been able to support several Waldorf schools in Israel — including those in Binyamina, Naan, Tal Shachar, and Ramat Gan — through the construction of protective shelters.