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At the end of March, an Emergency Pedagogy team from the Friends of Waldorf Education visited the Hámori Waldorf School in northern Hungary. The school community wanted to become active in the face of the situation of refugees in their town and help on several levels. The emergency pedagogical…

The Kiev Waldorf teacher Polina Viktorova decided to leave Ukraine with her child and went to Slovakia. On 27.03 she took part in an emergency pedagogical seminar of the Friends of Waldorf Education in Bratislava Here she reports on the experience of her own trauma and the effect of emergency…

Minka Görzel-Straube has been working voluntarily as an emergency pedagogue for many years. She has already accompanied and partly led more than 50 interventions. She also led a workshop in Krakow, which took place in March 2022 and was primarily aimed at teachers who are currently looking after…

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, sirens and power cuts have become part of everyday life even in western Ukraine, which is less affected by military attacks. During our intervention, we were able to directly experience this everyday life of war - with the chance to react directly to the…

For several days, an Emergency Pedagogy Team has been working in the border region and also in Ukraine. In a video diary, Lukas Mall describes the situation at regular intervals.

The Friends of Waldorf Education is preparing a series of actions to help traumatized, frightened refugees on the borders of Ukraine, as well as those who remain in Ukraine.

For a month, the Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma has been spewing lava and soot. Air traffic to the island is now possible again. According to the European Union's Copernicus Emergency Monitoring Service, 1817 buildings have fallen victim to the boiling lava since the volcano began erupting. More…

After the Friends of Waldorf Education deployed emergency pedagogy in the flooded area in the Ahr valley, we provided the community of Rech with a mobile playground. In this way children have a safe place to play in the midst of an environment still scarred by the floods.

With our urgent call we would like to support Waldorf Schools affected by the economic consequences of the lockdowns in their respective countries and ask for help in implementing emergency educational programs.

Our everyday life is increasingly restricted by the corona crisis. Many people are worried and especially children are frightened by this situation. However, fear and stress weaken the immune system. Therefore, in addition to interrupting the chains of infection and the necessary hygiene measures,…