The Rudolf Steiner School in Mbagathi is located south of Nairobi and has been in existence since 1989. From an initial ten pupils, it has now grown to 430 children. One of the school's central tasks is to give disadvantaged children a future. To do this, it relies on partnerships, grants and donations. Around 140 girls and boys live in the school's own boarding facility.

Founded in 1992, the Waldorf school in Chișinău is one of the first alternative schools and remains the only Waldorf school in Moldova.

The Goderich Waldorf School in Sierra Leone was founded in the aftermath of the brutal civil war that ended in 2002. Two social workers first established a safe space for war orphans, which quickly evolved into a school.

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 language and means ‘a joyful heart’. It is a fitting name for a project that not only provides children and young people from disadvantaged families with school education but also encourages creative development and the courage to face the challenges of life.

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 moving to the big cities, where they usually live in the increasingly crowded favelas. Life in Várzea da Roça is often characterised by poverty, violence, drug use, and prostitution. This has consequences for children and young people: they do not do well at school and eventually stop attending altogether. The Escola Waldorf Anael was founded almost twenty years ago for precisely these kinds of children. Waldorf teacher Doris Knipping has been involved with the school since the beginning. She recalls the time when the school was founded and how it developed.

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 private schools.

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 established under the most basic conditions in 2008 as a small school with sixty children and has continued to develop ever since. It is an important educational opportunity for children in this rural area of Kenya, whose families often have very low incomes.

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.

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.

The Hermanus Waldorf School was founded in 1994 by parents who wanted their children to receive a Waldorf education. They were responding to the lack of pre-school facilities in the townships of Zwelihle and Mount Pleasant. From the outset, there was a clear vision: inclusion and equal opportunities – regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion or economic status. Today, the Hermanus Waldorf School has grown into a well-established educational institution in the region – and is once again facing a significant developmental leap: the expansion of the upper school to include a vocational section.