Emergency Pedagogy in South Africa: Completion of the module training

The Friends of Waldorf Education's emergency pedagogy is continuously working to expand and consolidate its worldwide network. In the meantime, teams have been trained in 24 countries that can help quickly, unbureaucratically and, above all, sustainably in the event of a crisis. Thus, in addition to acute aid for children in crisis areas, emergency pedagogy relies on help from the local people themselves.

In South Africa, the foundation stone was laid in 2017 for a South African network of emergency educators, whose 13 active members have participated in several theoretical and practice-based further training courses. The last three-day training course took place in Johannesburg in January 2023, where the focus was on project planning and implementation in addition to getting to know each other personally and exchanging professional information. Based on what they learned, the participants designed their own projects, which they can implement in their communities in the future. One emergency educator plans to organise emergency education in the children's ward of her local hospital, another colleague wants to work in a township in Cape Town.

In addition to the voluntary activities, the South African team is planning a larger project for the coming months. We are very much looking forward to the further cooperation with colleagues who will give children and young people in difficult circumstances a bit of security and joy.