The inclusive Waldorf school Stupeni (Steps) was founded in Odessa in 1992. In an email, Natalia Lukyanchenko told us about the school's work in the winter months of 2023/24:

The Waldorf School in Dnipro was founded in 1995. At the beginning of the war, the city of Dnipro was the target of several air raids in which many civilians died. Despite the ongoing situation of threat, the school manages to run a reliable, daily school routine. In February 2024, the school…

Since the beginning of the war in 2022, the city of Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine has repeatedly been the target of attacks by Russian troops. To this day, there are regular explosions caused by rockets and drones. The border with Russia and the active frontline are only 30 kilometres away. Some…

The Sonyachne Podvirya (Sonnenhof) Centre for Special Education has been caring for children and young people with different degrees of disability since 2004. There were several serious drone attacks on Kyiv during the winter months. Nevertheless, lessons and the winter festivals were able to take…

Reports from the Waldorf schools in Ukraine clearly show that, after two years, the conflict has become a sad everyday occurrence. This is also the case at the Sophia School in Kyiv, which was founded in 1997. Currently, 200 students are being taught in person and an additional 110 refugee students…

What we do today affects tomorrow. Our children learn this, for example, in horticulture lessons. If something happens today, something will grow so that I can feed myself in future and that will bring me sustenance and joy. In this issue we look at how we can influence the future. What does a good…

For two years, a bitter civil war raged in northern Ethiopia, and even after signing a peace agreement, violent clashes continue to this day. The conflict between the regional government of Tigray and the Ethiopian central government resulted in countless deaths and forced more than 1.2 million…

Almost six months after the severe destruction caused by Hurricane "Otis" in Mexico, an emergency pedagogical team is once again working with affected families in the Acapulco region. During their efforts, it became clear that people are not only suffering from the aftermath of the natural disaster…

At the beginning of February, several forest fires caused devastating damage in Chile. The region around Valparaíso on the Pacific coast is particularly affected. Just days after the disaster, the emergency pedagogy network in Chile became active and carried out several missions.

Since the floods in the summer of 2021, the emergency educators from the Joy of Waldorf Education have been accompanying affected children, their parents and their teachers in the area that was flooded. We have now been able to build an educational network that can offer a range of helpful measures.…