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Wars and violent conflicts are among the most severe causes of humanitarian crises. They often force people to flee their homes and result in shortages of food, water, and medical care. Humanitarian disasters threaten or destroy the lives of countless people, including children, who are often the…

From March 2022 through November 2025, the Emergency Pedagogy Department of the Friends of Waldorf Education was able to support children, adolescents, and pedagogues in Ukraine through, among other initiatives, four training cycles, each consisting of eight modules. The participating pedagogues…

The Warvin Organisation for Child Rights is a local non-governmental organisation operating in the Iraqi city of Sinjar. It is supported by the Emergency Pedagogy Department of the Friends of Waldorf Education. Warvin was founded in 2024 by project director Sadoon Barakat, a Yazidi who had been…

In April 2026, a six-person team from the Emergency Pedagogy Department of the Friends of Waldorf Education, led by coordinator Lina Bäuerle, travelled to Myanmar for two weeks. Many people there are still suffering from the devastating consequences of the earthquake in March 2025. Added to this is…

A few years ago, Jure Castro Iraguha founded the volunteer organisation Blessed to Bless Life Ministries (BBLM) in the Kyaka II refugee camp in western Uganda. Having fled to Uganda himself to escape the violent conflicts in the Congo, Jure's goal was to support children and young people in…

Zoe Besand is a Waldorf kindergarten teacher and has been a regular volunteer with the educational emergency response teams of The Friends of Waldorf Education for over 13 years, taking part in missions around the world. We asked her to share her impressions with us.

Between 22 February and 5 March, the Argentine emergency pedagogy team carried out an intervention in Epuyén, a small town with a population of around 2,400, in the Patagonian Andes region of Argentina. The reason for this was a catastrophic fire that destroyed forests, villages, roads, wildlife and…

Even years after the peace agreement in Colombia’s armed conflict between illegal groups and state forces, the situation remains tense, and many people continue to suffer the consequences of violence and displacement. In Sierra Morena, a low-income neighbourhood in the Ciudad Bolívar district of…

The Waldorf Kindergarten Pusteblume is located in Grafschaft-Oeverich in northern Rhineland-Palatinate. Since 1995, children between the ages of two and six have been accompanied here by three early childhood teachers in a small, family-like group of around 25 children. Everyday life is shaped by…

In early February, Lina Bäuerle and Fabian Krämer from the Emergency Pedagogy team of the Friends of Waldorf Education traveled to Kurdistan in Northern Iraq for a week to visit their project partner, Island of Hope. For over ten years, the core team of Hishyar, Ali, and Hazhar has been working with…