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The School for Life in Chiang Mai pursues three goals:

• to secure the existence and well-being of the children entrusted to its care, to give them a new home and to offer them plenty perspectives for their lives;
• to offer the traumatized children therapeutic support;
• to document the relevant details of the accumulated experience of the School for Life in the form of an operational manual and to make this manual available for other Schools for Life or other projects that are interested in the School for Life model.

The envisaged development of the School for Life model, including kindergarten, primary school and junior high school may need up to 5 years. Another 5 years will be needed for the development of a senior high school and a higher education study program “social entrepreneurship” (B.A. and M.A.) to be prepared at the Ubon Ratchathanee University in Thailand.

Within this period of time, i.e. within the next ten years, the Schools for Life are supposed to become self-sustainable through income generation by their entrepreneurial units and through the marketing of a School for Life franchising system.

The immediate goals are:

• getting Thai citizenship if possible for all children enrolled in the School for Life;
• setting up a team of experts for the development of a School for Life specific curriculum and the School for Life operational manual;
• organization of a continuous in-service teacher training program and a related teacher training curriculum;
• special training of all faculty staff in the field of trauma-therapy;
• starting-up first commercial units in the field of sensitive tourism and youth camp.

The medium-term goals are:

• the establishment of seven “Centers of Excellence” (see point 8.4);
• the organization of other spin-offs in order to further secure the economic existence of the School for Life.