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Built on friendship
Together with a Roma family, the architect Flavia Matei built a house from clay in barely four months in the Romanian village of Rosia. A very special relationship developed. But Flavia Matei also had to fight against a lot of things: the bad weather, deeply entrenched preconceptions, cultural differences and a strong macho culture. [more]
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The storyteller of Bersive
Hameed Jirdo lives in the Bersive refugee camp in Kurdistan, northern Iraq. He works daily with traumatised children. Reta Lüscher-Rieger and Raphaela Ehmcke from the Friends of Waldorf Education spoke with him. [more]
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Mr. Flo and the football
Ex-Waldorf pupil Florian Zech has founded a non-profit social enterprise in South Africa. [more]
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Making anthroposophy and Waldorf education academically accessible
Interview with Jost Schieren, professor of Waldorf education at Alanus University in Alfter/Bonn. [more]
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A piece of Congo in my pocket
The former child soldier Junior Nzita Nsuami has become an ambassador against war. [more]
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The first volunteer
Rasmus Precht was the first volunteer who in 1994 undertook “Alternative Service Abroad” with the Friends of Waldorf Education. Today the Friends are the largest German provider of volunteering services with currently 1,500 participants. [more]
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The absolute freedom of paper and paintbrush
A visit to Arno Stern, the inventor of painting play. [more]
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Johannes Matthiessen – artist of the earth. An obituary
Johannes Matthiessen was an artist through and through. He studied architecture, taught art in Waldorf schools, was a visual artist, social artist and an artist of the earth – but above all he was a person who lived and worked with incredible intensity. [more]
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“The method convinced me”
Friederike Bönner and Maximilian Buchka are traditionally trained teachers – and devote themselves wholly in their work to the education system established by Rudolf Steiner: Friederike Bönner is director of a Waldorf kindergarten and is at the point of completing a part-time course in early childhood education at Alanus University. The 71-year-old Maximilian Buchka teaches there as professor of special needs and early years education and offers reading courses for the texts of Rudolf Steiner. [more]
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