How Your Actions Make an Impact
Your Proceeds – Your Decision
You decide where the proceeds from your WOW-Day go. There are three options:
goes directly to the projects
100 % of your WOW-Day proceeds go directly to projects around the world. The Friends of Waldorf Education, together with the partners of WOW-Day, cover all administrative and processing costs. This means that your support reaches the projects in full, wherever it is needed.
Why WOW-Day Is Needed – 7 Good Reasons and Yours
Many Waldorf initiatives around the world work under challenging conditions. Through WOW-Day, you help make education possible, sustain educational institutions and give children reliable prospects for the future.
Making Education Possible
WOW-Day supports kindergartens, schools and special education institutions in places where education would often not be possible without international solidarity.
Helping Prevent Child Labour
For many families, even small contributions towards kindergarten or school fees are unaffordable. Support can help ensure that children continue to have access to education.
Strengthening Pioneering Work
Many projects are established in places where good educational opportunities are lacking. Parents and educators create new places of learning, often under the simplest conditions.
Opening Up Future Prospects
Schools, kindergartens and special education institutions are places where children can develop confidence, discover their abilities and experience new possibilities for their future.
Providing Safety and Stability
Especially in regions affected by poverty, crises or insecurity, these institutions provide reliable relationships and a safe environment for everyday life.
Supporting Everyday Needs
Often, it is about very basic necessities: school meals, salaries, teaching materials, assistance with school fees and ongoing operating costs.
Sustaining Educational Institutions
WOW-Day helps sustain vibrant places of education for the long term – from month to month and from year to year.
What Is Your Good Reason?
Perhaps there is another reason why you want to get involved in WOW-Day. What kind of impact would you like to make possible?
How Your WOW-Day Proceeds Create Real Impact
Lesedi Waldorf School
A washing machine for the school’s boarding house. Laundry for almost 100 children is washed there – until now, much of it by hand.
Kitale Waldorf School
Four newly built classrooms were equipped with school desks and tables – built and installed locally.
Goderich Waldorf School
A Kenyan artist and music teacher was able to spend four weeks working as a mentor at the school in Sierra Leone.
Madagascar
Waldorf teachers from France were able to support the developing school project with educational guidance for three weeks.
The International Waldorf Fund
It is not always possible to predict where support will be needed most urgently. The International Waldorf Fund enables us to respond quickly and pragmatically to requests for assistance from Waldorf and social initiatives around the world.
This means that your WOW-Day proceeds can help exactly where funds are urgently needed or where a particular situation requires additional support. If you choose the International Waldorf Fund, we would like to surprise you later with a story showing you exactly where your proceeds have made a difference.
International Waldorf FundYour Action Makes This Impact Possible
You decide which project you would like to support – and with your ideas, your commitment and your action, you make real change possible.