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Waldorf Worldwide: News-Blog

New schools, special events or emergencies: Here you will find the latest news from Waldorf Schools, Waldorf Kindergartens and curative education institutions all over the world.

School meals: An important part of school life

As most of the pupils at Rudolf Steiner School Mbagathi in Kenya come from families with very low incomes, the school management attaches great importance to providing the children with school meals. Mercy Njoki, a member of the school staff, reports on why this is currently being given a special focus.

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South Africa: Struggling for an independent curriculum

For almost a year now, the electricity in South Africa is cut off every day. An outdated power grid, but above all corruption and sabotage lead to these daily hour-long power outages. That the high-quality coal is exported, while in the home country only low-grade coal is used to generate electricity, serves to exacerbate the situation. Many electricity plants have been forced to close due to lack of electricity, and whole sectors of the economy are in danger of collapse. The political and economic situation in South Africa is in a serious crisis. This impacts adversely on the education system, including the Waldorf schools in the country. William Bester, long-time teacher and manager at the Michael Mount Waldorf School in Johannesburg, has worked for the Southern African Federation of Waldorf Schools since 2022. William reports on the situation in South Africa for us.

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School is more than simply lessons: The new Issue of "Waldorf Worldwide"

When we hear the terms “school” and “education”, we first think of classrooms, teachers, learning materials and everything that is needed in the classroom. But school is much more than what happens in class. For some schools, for example, food is a very important part of the school day. Teachers need training and therefore, also training facilities. But holidays are also part of the school year. In our cover topic, “School is about more than lessons”, we shed light on aspects of Waldorf education that are not directly located in the classroom. Read more

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Thailand: Teacher education in Southeast Asia

In March of this year, a new teacher education course was launched for colleagues in Thailand. The venue was the Panyotai Waldorf School on the outskirts of Bangkok.

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Topical again: education needs nourishment

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.

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Places to live, work and learn: Our Latest Appeal for donations

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.

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Kenya: A new beginning for the Humane School

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.

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Free donations always help

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.

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Covid-19: Help in the crisis

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 financial support either. Those parents and families who might have been able to pay small contributions to the school before were no longer able to do so. The consequences for the institutions were devastating in many cases.

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Ghana: From a rubbish dump to a craftsmen's village

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 a day, which are prepared by the Mmas living at the centre and a cook. The team of colleagues, consisting of the teacher Ayala, the manager Owuso, the Mmas and the support teacher Patrice Reinhardt from Aachen, have wished for some time that the "big ones" in the Cosmos Centre could pursue a meaningful occupation and, for example, work as craftsmen in their own workshops. Until now, the centre lacked the space for this, but now - via some detours - the property directly opposite could be acquired.

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Waldorf Worldwide

Since 1976, the Freunde der Erziehungskunst Rudolf Steiners e. V. (Friends of Waldorf Education) have been supporting Waldorf Schools, Waldorf Kindergartens, social therapy, and curative education institutions as well as social initiatives in order…

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Call for donations

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.

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Help a child go to school

In many countries Waldorf schools receive little or no government support. We arrange sponsorships in the sense of educational vouchers. Our approach is an agreement with the local school that the additional tuition fees coming from educational…

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