Our values as a Japanese couple who live in the remote area in Thailand “Connection” “Protecting our human values” “Responsibility” Our representative, Mr. Tamaki first visited his Thai friend who were managing an orphanage school in the remote area of Kanchanaburi. Inspired by him, he established Rainbow School for children who cannot go to a school due to their life difficulties. Through the connection he made, children and staffs began to gather. Nowadays, we have become like a big family with so many supporters and volunteers. I would like to offer this place to maintain the cur- rent connections as well as create new connections.

Here in Sangkhlaburi, the indigenous culture is rapidly disappearing, adapting the life style of developed countries. We believe that we are committed to rediscover and maintain the cultural values as we have experience of losing them, growing up in Japan, one of developed countries.

We want to help to maintain this beautiful and important values as well as create a place where we reflect and rede- fine our modern ways of living through learning the indigenous culture.

Our local area of Sangkhlaburi is dominated by rubber plantation. It has sacrificed and ruined rich forests and moun- tains that used to feed the indigenous people, under excessive practices of the capitalism and exploitation in devel- oped countries. Severe poverty, statelessness and no access to education system put a real pressure on not only these people but also ourselves as it only creates more problem on a global level. We feel responsibility to tackle these issues by collaborating with and learning from them, in order to review and change our ways of living outside of this area.