The Banyan Home Foundation was set up by Mrs. Miwa Natori from Japan. It operates the Ban Rom Sai Children's Home at 23/1 Moo 4 Tambon Namprae, Ampur Hangdong, Chiangmai Province, Thailand 50230. (E-mail: info@banromsai.jp; mobile phone number (+66) (81) 8835882; fax number (+66) (53) 427434; URL (only Japanese): http://www.banromsai.jp).

It was a television documentary by Mr. Kenji Nagai, a Japanese photojournalist, that brought to the attention of the Sata Foundation Mrs. Miwa Natori's charitable activities. With deep sadness, Mr. Kenji Nagai was shot dead in Myanmar during one of the anti-government protests in 2007. The Sata Foundation's donation to the Banyan Home Foundation is both a tribute and a memorial to Kenji Nagai.

Currently, 31 children, 15 of them boys and 16 of them girls, live at the Home. Twenty-nine of them are HIV/AIDS-infected. Most of them are between 9-12 years of age. The youngest one is 4 years' old, and the oldest 17 years of age. The oldest kid, a 17-year-old girl, lost both parents from HIV/AIDS, but she somehow is free of the disease. The Home took her in after she had been physically abused by her then boyfriend. The other non-HIV/AIDS infected kid is a 15-year-old boy whose parents are too poor to feed him. The children stay at their own free will and are free to leave the Home forever at anytime they want. The Home intends to limit the number of the children in residence to 32 so that it can keep the family-like atmosphere and maintain its capacity to take care of the children adequately.

The Sata Foundation's donation covers the cost of Thai language books and DVDs for the Home's library so that the HIV/AIDS-infected children as well as adults from the village can read/watch. (They cannot use libraries open to the general public or normal students because their presence in these normal libraries is not quite welcome.) The Home's library is located on the second floor in a building next to the hospice which is being built. The two-storied building was constructed with a donation from Credit Suisse and was officially opened in June 2007. The library opens from 16:30-19:30 hrs. on weekdays and 08:30-16:30 hrs. during the weekend. The ground floor is divided into a classroom and a computer room with five computers. A Thai teacher teaches the children how to use the computer and access the internet. Classes in nutrition and HIV/AIDS awareness are held frequently for the children. The library is a crucial link between the Home and its neighborhood. The library now has 200 members, most of whom are villagers living nearby who have come to read daily newspapers and borrow books and, in the way, get to know that HIV/AIDS-infected children are human-beings who can be hugged without transmitting the deadly disease to another person. Al Gore's book "Inconvenient Truth" can be found on a shelf alongside English dictionaries, computer manuals, and cartoon books.

For years, the Sata Foundation has been providing financial support to the Shechen Clinic in an overcrowded suburb of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. The Clinic provides quality medical care, regardless of religious, ethnic or political background, to the large community that includes refugees and other people from the mountain regions. Services are provided on a sliding scale cost bases and, in the case of very poor patients, all medical care and medicines are provided at no cost. The Clinic treats over 3,500 patients a month. The services provided include: general medicine, pharmacy, analysis laboratory, tuberculosis (D.O.T.), orthopedic, reproductive health, counseling for HIV and AIDS patients and their family; homeopathy, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan medicine factory, acupuncture, dental clinic, and dental laboratory.

The Sata Foundation continues to promote international rules of law in Asia by awarding annually the Sata Prize, valued at US$2,000 from the year 2005 onward, for the best international law essays by young Asian international legal scholars. The winning essays are published in the Asian Yearbook of International Law (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers: Leiden/Boston), under the auspices of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia (DILA). The Asian Yearbook informs the world about Asian perspectives on international law that underpins world peace and the international legal order. The Sata Prize thus serves to enhance the "understanding among peoples of all cultures, religions and beliefs of the value of peace and respect for universally recognized human rights", which is part of the Sata Foundation's Mission Statement.

The winners of the Sata Prize 2006 were Naazima Kamardeen, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Jaemin Lee, Associate Professor of Law, College of Law, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, for the article entitled "The erosion of community rights to intellectual property: an Asian perspective", and "The United Nations Security Council and the International Court of Justice: Cooperation, Co-Existence, and Co-Involvement", respectively. There were altogether 21 enquiries from the nationals of 15 countries about the rules and regulations of the Prize and 13 of them submitted their essays for the award of the Sata Prize.

The winner of the Sata Prize 2007 was the essay entitled "Some Asian States' Opposition to the Concept of War Crimes in Non-International Armed Conflicts and Its Legal Implications" written by Dr. Zhu Lijiang Lecturer, Faculty of International Law, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), Beijing, P.R. China,100088.

The Sata Foundation made a one-time donation to Herzliya Theatre Ensemble for the cost of translating the play entitled "Black Rain" by Dr. Shlomo Bouzaglo, an Israeli author and philosopher, into the English language.

This new theater play in Hebrew which was premiered at the Israel Jerusalem Festival in May 2007 is about the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, based on historical documentation, poetic fragments and original texts, and which tries to deal with the tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and delves into its long term issues and consequences. This is a very strong and interesting piece of good theatre, very well played, and with clear anti-atomic bomb declarations and intonations.

At the beginning of December 2007, "Black Rain" was introduced on the "International Exposure" event, attended by presenters from different theatres and festivals around the world. The play's worldwide tour is being planned. The Sata Foundation's contribution was recognized.

The peace message of the play fits within the SF's Mission Statement which says: "The Sata Foundation is a non-profit organisation with the humanitarian objective of securing a better and more humane world through the enhancement of understanding—among peoples of all cultures, religions and beliefs—of the value of peace...."

The Sata Foundation organized the 2nd and 3rd Run for Peace Rallies in August 2006 and 2007 in Chailly, Burgundy, France. The Rallies had some 500 cyclists, led by Bernard Hinault, participating, with over one hundred onlookers and supporters in attendance. The events raised funds for the Sata Foundation, a substantial amount of which was donated to the Association pour la construction d'une maison des familles de patients hospitalizes au centre hospitalier de Saint Brieuc in Brittany, France. (http://maisondesfamilles.chez-alice.fr/)

The Association provides accommodations for the families of hospitalized patients to give the patients moral support and help their expeditious recovery from illness. The Association's mission is, therefore, "achievement of better and affordable healthcare for citizens of the world" within the Sata Foundation's Mission Statement.

In 2006, the Sata Foundation made donations to support the accommodation of table tennis players who competed in the International Paralympic World Table Tennis Championships in Montreux, Switzerland, from 24 September-1October 2006.