Before start working in communities, we come to perform mobile theatre and then, teaching acting and life skills for children in schools. When children’s behaviors develop, parents become trust in us and know that we are harmless. And community activities emphasize our good hope. Soon, communities have better positive thinking towards us. In many processes concerning with children, sometimes we need cooperation from adults; for instance, surveying villagers who are local philosophers and have knowledge on culture and local wisdom. Then, we will contact and invite local philosophers to join the learning process. As a result, power and confidence are transferred between the old and the new generation. However, when children grow up, some of them have to leave the villages to face the world outside. Some are successful but some are not. All villagers do not want to see their children being taken advantage of or being abused by the outside world. Gabfai has created alternative choices with communities especially, Media Culture Groups and Village’s Leaders. We turn to become an organization who is working to protect children and community rights by using cultural tools we are familiar with and tools which can go along with cultural context of communities. By do so, we can continue preserving culture as well as performing our duty as media who serves the need of communities at present. Audiences will have direct experiences and admire performance such as dance, singing and music presented in front of them. This will respond to spiritual need of people and can access to target groups. And the atmosphere cannot be seen easily today. This way we can adjust old social work to the new one.

Purposes
To support Media Culture Groups to raise campaigns to create awareness or to solve social problems affecting communities.

Activities
▪ Arranging meetings, training workshops or new skills required by artists.
▪ Supporting and promoting work plan in community level to develop human resource or to prevent and solve problems in communities by using art and culture (Community Loves Child and Woman: Chumchon Ruk La-aon Lae Mae Ying)
▪ Supporting the process of exchanging experiences and skills in communities or between artists or creating learning space in comminities (Kard Muan Jai)

Nowadays, we cannot work alone considering our workload. As a result, there has to be cooperation to achieve the goals and we need support and cooperation. Gabfai is an organization which sees the importance stated above. Therefore, we cooperate with our alliances and people in society in the form of Alliance Network; namely, alliance against Children Trafficking and Woman Trafficking, Thailand (CTWT) , Sampran Network Against Human Trafficking, Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Woman (GAATW) , Peace Progressive Woman Network, Network for Earth and Peace (NEP), People’s Media Network, South East Asia Popular Communication Program (SEAPCP), etc. Our Alliance Network may have different missions but we have the same focus; that is, to reinforce and empower groups of people which still lacks an opportunity by drive public policy to governmental policy in order to cover all parts of society equally and fairly. The policy is practical and non-discrimination and can create peaceful society.