Childlife-A future for street children
Partner of "RASMI" (Rural and Social Management Institute)
supporting the project "School for Life"

A phone call from Muenich. He had read the documents
about the School For Life. He's reflecting on what to do.
On the end of the other phone line: Florian from Muenich.
Florian is a freelance-architect, teaches in the University
of Design in Karlsruhe and lectures as guest professor in
the University of Arts in Saarbruecken. Few days after,
Florian came to Chiangmai ; he explained he did not come
for fun. He started to study the traditional architecture
of north Thailand. He settled in the farm where the
School for Life will be constructed. He strode the area up
and down, again and again; he fetched some long poles
and laid them; observed the wind movements, the
direction of heavens, the position of the sun. He counted the trees that should be preserved. He
debated about the construction concepts and watched the work of the local construction
workers. Florian retreated; he said the design could only be conceptualized in solitude. Now the
design is conceived, developed through dialog and consolidated. The School for Life is like a small
cosmos, which is embedded in the greater cosmos and cultural context; sun and rain, wind and
weather, heat and cold, east and west, agricultural traditions and cultural peculiarities should be
considered. And the pedagogical ideas consist of the place of learning, the relations between
public and private, the spirit of entrepreneurship, the steps to ecological agriculture, the formation
of living communities, the connections to the surrounding villages, the Buddhist way to intelligent
humility - a high quality of life, with least consumption of resources

The master of construction will be the entrepreneur from the town of Pongkum, where his farm is situated. The important and existing good transport connections will be improved further, to give the poorest people employment

Now , the cost of construction will be calculated and the funding donors/sponsors will be sought for, in order to facilitate the implementation of the pilot project, which is now already gaining interest among expert groups

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Facts/Plans
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