* The image shows a workshop (workshop) opened on the outskirts of Battambang City.

A private house that had been decaying and covered with trees in the jungle was renovated by hand and turned into a workshop for work. We will try again to build a community around this workshop, which was once a great failure. Many of the former Thai migrant workers had returned to Battambang after the Thai military junta came to power, and we began working with them.

Cotton dyeing has been mixed and matched, but we have also started making soap from plants that grow wild in our backyard and within walking distance, such as cottonseed, coconut, rice bran, neem (medicinal tree), avocado, noni, moringa, lemongrass, etc. We squeeze them into oil at our workshop and make soap.

We also make bags using palm leaves. (It can hold a 13-inch thin computer.)
Coconut buttons and banana clasp strings are also handmade. Materials are sourced only from Battambang Province.

We also started making yarn from cotton seeds and Japanese garabo. Before the civil war, there was a spinning mill in Battambang. It is really a small, tiny spinning machine, but we were able to restore the spinning facilities for the first time after the civil war. I am very happy.

Even though it is everlasting summer in the tropics, we are starting a new trial with cold sweat from a series of failures ^^;.

With your encouragement, we will work to create a mutually trusting community through job creation, while taking great care to place as little burden on the environment as possible.

Atsushi Furusawa Dear m(_ _)m