Projects Around the World
The money raised by you, is forwarded by your school to the Friends of Waldorf Education and from there the amount reaches the projects around the world at 100%. We take over the administrative costs so that not one cent is lost. You can either donate towards the general WOW-Day Fund or to one or more projects of your choice. A selection of projects, can be found on this page.
- Through the general WOW-Day Fund we support projects that are in need of urgent assistance and have applied for funding. In this way we can also help smaller projects, which do not have a large donor base yet.
- If you would like to support a specific project, you can inform us at any time, up to the time until your donation reaches us.
In addition, there is also the possibility to support other projects, if you have a personal relationship with them. Even in these cases we are happy to take over the forwarding of donations. Please talk to us so we can figure out the details of such individual cases.
Ethiopia: Food for the children in Finks Hawzien
Due to the civil war in the province of Tigray, the supply of food for the 400 kindergarten and school children is very difficult. With your donation you can provide the children with bread and milk. About 16,500 euros are needed for this.
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Brazil: Running costs for Circo Ponte das Estrelas
The Circo Ponte das Estrelas needs your help to cover their daily costs. These are, for example, the electricity, water and gas bills as well as the costs to buy flour for baking bread. They need a total of 8,500 euros to cover all costs.
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Brazil: Toys, handicraft materials and room equipment for the children of CREAR
The employees of CREARs little Waldorf school want to replace old plastic toys with new toys made of high quality materials such as wood. They also want a wooden house for the children to play in and new carpets. They need about 2,500 Euros.
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Brazil: Equipment for the school hall at Escola Anael
For the newly built school hall and all-purpose room, the school still needs stage lighting system and a curtain, microphones and loudspeakers, an air conditioner and chairs for the auditorium. All in all they need about 10,000 euros for this.
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Brazil: Healthy food for young people and adults with disabilities at Guainumbi
Guainumbi is a point of contact for 108 people with special needs. There they attend workshops, commit themselves to artistic projects and receive healthy food. Due to the sharp increase in food prices, the project needs about 9,600 Euros.
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Brazil: Renovation work to keep the Vale de Luz Waldorf School in Brazil open
In order to keep the Waldorf School in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro open despite new government hygiene and safety regulations, the school needs some urgent renovations. To meet all requirements, they are lacking a total of 40,000 euros.
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Chile: Beauty and warmth for children at social risk in the Kaspar Hauser Kindergarten
The kindergarten in Santiago with 40 children from very challenging social backgrounds urgently needs new furniture as well as windows and doors that will keep the room warm even in winter. In total this will cost about 5,000 euros.
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Georgia: Apothecary garden and sensory garden for people with disabilities
About 50 children and adolescents with special needs can use the planned apothecary and sensory gardens as a development and learning environment as well as for therapy. To implement this project, the Michael School needs about 5,000.00 euros.
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Georgia: Expansion of the bakery to grind own grains to flour
The social community for people with and without disabilities in Gremi bakes their own bread. Since the nearby public mills have been closed, they are now planning to grind the grain themselves; the new room will cost about 3,000 euros.
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Ghana: Food and maintenance costs for the Cosmos Center
19 children and young people with severe disabilities live in the Cosmos Centre. The annual maintenance costs amount to 18,000 euros. This money is used to pay for food and medicine for the children, as well as salaries and electricity costs.
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Guatemala: Gardening and daily nutritious program for the children of Escuela Caracol
In order to provide a daily meal program for the children of Escuela Caracol, the school needs help. There are also costs for the maintenance of the classrooms and the gardening program. They need about 17,000 euros, to meet their needs.
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Kenya: School furniture, farm management and learning material for the children of the Humane School
For the new school building, school furniture has to be repaired, maintained and bought. The school needs to buy learning material and manage the farm to get products for the school feeding program. In total, they need about 6,100 Euros.
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Kenya: Musical instruments, textbooks and school materials for science lessons
The RSSM would like to buy textbooks for the library, school materials for the science lessons and new musical instruments for the students. They would like a keyboard, recorders, a violin and drums. For this they need about 10,100 euros.
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Kyrgyzstan: Hope and medication for young people with disabilities in Bishkek
Some of the children with disabilities develop strong (self-) aggression during puberty and need individual support and medication. Due to the war in Ukraine, these medicines have become very expensive and now cost 3,000 Euros.
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Colombia: Music programme for the children and adolescents in Bogotá's favelas
In order to continue offering the therapeutic music programme for children and young people in Bogotá, of whom some are severely traumatised, the project needs 10,400 euros. This will pay for the staff and the maintenance of the instruments.
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Colombia: Equipment for the creative education of children and young people of Acra Mundial
Acra Mundial offers children and adolescents with disabilities various learning opportunities. For the next year, they will need burners for the kiln for modeling with clay and a new lathe and telescopic ram, for a total of 9,800 euros.
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Moldova: new sports equipment and furniture for the classrooms in Chișinău.
To upgrade the school's gymnasium, they need a high bar, a vaulting horse and new sports mats. In addition, the classrooms and the school library should be equipped with new furniture and blackboards. Altogether, this will cost 11,000 euros.
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Nepal: Food for the children in Nepal
At Shanti, every child gets something to eat. For the 70 boarding children, Shanti calculates with 1 Euro per day per child. For the 70 external children, 70 cents per day per child. In total, Shanti needs 3,080 euros for food every month.
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Peru: A new roof for the Waldorf initiative in Sauce
Estrella de Sauce is a Waldorf initiative in Sauce that ensures that also children in very rural areas have access to good educational system. Now the roof of the projects building needs to be renewed. For this they need about 6,200 euros.
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Peru: Three new classrooms for children in Peru
The demand for Waldorf kindergarten places is steadily increasing. Therefore, the Khuyay Waldorf School Tarapoto in Peru would like to build and equip three new classrooms. For this, the school needs financial support totalling 30,000 euros.
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Sierra Leone: 100 young coconut palms for the Waldorf School near Freetown
To get less dependent on donations, the Goderich Waldorf School wants to buy and plant 100 coconut palms. The harvest of approximate 2,000 coconuts from the palms each year can then be sold at markets. The coconut seedlings cost 2,000 euros.
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South Africa: Therapy and extra lessons for the children of the Zenzeleni Waldorf School
Many children at Zenzeleni School have faced severe conditions since the outbreak of Covid 19: Violence, stress, alcohol abuse and depression. In order to offer them and diverse and individual therapy programme, the school needs 19,200 euros.
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South Africa: 4,800 bricks for the Lesedi Waldorf School in Madietane
For the children, the team spirit and the smooth running of the school and boarding school, it is important that the teachers live on the school premises. The school needs about 1,150 euros to create more space and additional accommodation.
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South Africa: A nice room with an undercover shelter for the training of Waldorf teachers in Cape…
To provide the students who are attending the teacher training at the Centre for Creative Education (CCE) in order to become Waldorf teachers with a nice room and with a roofed outdoor area, the CCE needs about 3,000 Euros.
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Tanzania: A new classroom for children with disabilities in Vikindu
Some of the children that are visiting the inclusive Mwanangu Special School in Vikindu, Tanzania will move to grade three next year. The school needs to build a new barrier-free classroom for them. Building this will cost about 15,000 euros.
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Tajikistan: New bathrooms in the school building of the PASCH school in Chudjand
Until now, the bathrooms of the PASCH school in Chudjand are outside of the school building, which can be very uncomfortable and cold, especially in winter. Now they want to build bathrooms inside the building. That will cost 4,000 euros.
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Vietnam: Insurance costs for Waldorf Kindergarten teachers in Ho Chi Minh City
In order to be able to pay the annual fee for compulsory insurance for the three kindergarten teachers, the Dieu Giac Kindergarten needs financial support. The annual costs for insurance contributions amount to about 3,500 euros.
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