Hanseatic School for Life

[2] Through family-like living and project-oriented learning, the children and adolescents gain skills which can give their life a positive direction.

Dr. Jürgen Zimmer,[3] who founded the International Academy for Innovative Pedagogy, Psychology and Economics gGmbH (INA) at the Free University Berlin.

The focus of the school is no longer exclusively aimed at the victims of the 2004 tsunami catastrophe, but also at local children and adolescents in need.

[6] The School for Life near Chiang Mai is located a 45-minute drive away from the provincial capital on the farm "Suan Suo Fha Sai", which in English means "clear skies over beautiful gardens".

[7] The objective of the Hanseatic School for Life, and a distinguishing feature compared to similar aid projects, is the orientation towards the transfer of practical skills which allow the students to set up their own business in the future and thus to even create new jobs.

[9] The plan for the near future is that the project will be able to largely finance itself on the basis of proceeds from "culture sensitive tourism" at the Beluga School for Life, which began in 2007.

[12] In November 2008, the Hanseatic School for Life received a personal award from Willi Lemke, UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace.

Following the motto "HOME meets Classic” the band played two concerts in support of the Beluga School for Life together with the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra.

Other ambassadors are Katharina Wagner, Director of the Bayreuther Festspiele, the actress Susanne Gärtner, TV presenter and journalist Miriam Pielhau, the UN Special Advisor on Sport in the Service of Development and Peace, Willi Lemke, Lutz Stratmann, Minister for Science and Culture in Lower Saxony, as well as Prof. Dr. Bernd Stecker from the Bremen University of Applied Sciences.