Community Enterprises
It is intended to generate income through enterprising units which will contribute to the self-sustainable development of the School for Life within the next years. Profits will be used exclusively for charitable purposes and are allocated to the care and education of the children of the School for Life.
Hospitality Services
A start in this respect is the accommodation facility with eight bungalows and 8 guest rooms, and a restaurant. The School for Life encourages culture sensitive tourism and was started to fulfill two desires:
• The desire of experienced travelers who want to truly arrive in a country, have authentic experiences and make friends, and who are no longer satisfied with “tourist destinations”, “tourist art”, “tourist events”, “tourist excursions”, “tourist prices”, or the boredom of hotel lobbies.
• The desire of culturally-open locals who supply hospitality in place of barracuda behavior often witnessed amount tour guides, and who want to combine cultural, ecological and economical development.
The School for Life opens doors into Thai daily life that bring guests, the school’s community and local residents together as active partners and friends. Some guests do not only want to observe, they prefer to actively participate in what they see. More than a few of them want to leave tracks behind. For this reason, the School for Life combines investigating reality with the opportunity to make contributions towards the development of the school and the community. Guests are not treated like “black boxes”, but as experts with professional experience. The guests do not have to take on this role, of course. They can also choose to simply take vacation while they are there. But they know that the invitation to actively participate – regardless of how small or large their contribution is – stands.
Camps for Children and Youth
The School for Life is located in an attractive natural setting deep inside a royal forest in the Doi Saket Mountains. His Majesty the King of Thailand, supports organic farming in this area through different projects. A training center in the forest accumulates and disperses knowledge. The School for Life has dedicated itself to organic farming. A large piece of land of about 17 Rai (27,200 square meters) is available for children and youth camps. Children from schools all over Thailand can gather experiences here that go beyond ordinary scout camps: intensive experiences of nature in combination with organic farming.
Organic Farming
Organic agriculture does not use artificial chemical substances but is based entirely on existing organic resources such as plant and animal remains. This process uses traditional and modern knowledge to support and intensify the ecological process of growing and prospering agricultural products while at the same time enabling a system of recycling. His Majesty the King strongly supports and implements this “New Theory” in exemplary models, thus initiating a departure from chemically contaminated mass production.