Limited by teachers and other resources, the education development in the mountainous areas is unbalanced. Many schools only have Chinese and Maths courses. Art education and ability training is a pressing issue for schools. But teachers in the mountainous areas have seldom received any professional training and do not know how to guide the children to be creative, especially in art.

The Maitian Education Foundation has collected many of the unpolished paintings of children from the mountainous areas over the six years, held national exhibitions and raised funds through which. They also carried out a variety of art education activities and classes at different levels and scales. This series of courses generally referred to as Rainbow Program, with the hope to build a rainbow bridge for the children in mountainous areas. It is implemented by training the local teachers and simplifying the courses to achieve the effect of art education.

The zero based teaching materials are carefully screened and selected. It doesn’t require teachers to have professional skills and the course can be completed as long as they follow the textbook to guide the students.

Creation is the highlight of the course, which has changed the past general situation of simply copying in fine art classes for the children in the rural area. These fine art activities contain the energy of simulating the creativity.

Relying on the Maitian Project, this course is spread to more than 70 teams in the cities across the country. Rural students are encouraged through the cross-regional, intercity, urban and rural and school to school communications as well as the large-scale exhibitions. At the same time, through the sale and auction of the works of the exhibitions and the related products, a virtuous cycle of children self-support is eventually formed.

This course is very easy to expand. With the efforts of the more than 70 teams of Maitian Project, and under the condition with the sufficient fundraising, it can be quickly and effectively expanded and produce the snowball effect.

In August 2014, the project started after receiving the seed fund support of Sky3 Seed Foundation and 3 pilot schools were selected after screening;

In November 7- 23, 2014, the Rainbow Bag Project entered the Tencent crowd funding selection event and finally won the 1st “China Philanthropy Action Award”, winning 200,000 development funds support; at the same time, the three pilot schools respectively started to carry out rich and colourful rainbow courses.

In December 2014, Tianjin team’s “Rainbow Bag Achievements Exhibition” realized the self-stem through the sales of the painting works.

In December 2014, the Rainbow Bag launched the second phase application, and at the same time, sent the hand-painted postcards to the sponsors as feedback.

In March 2015, the second phase application of the Rainbow Bag was completed. And the schools of this phase carried out 19 times of activities in total from April to June 25.

In September 2015, a series of Rainbow activities was launched. From showcasing the rainbow, hiking, exhibitions and other activities to the September 9 Charity Day, various forms to the public 99 issued, 590, 000 yuan was raised in a matter of three days.

In November 2015, the Rainbow Bag opened the third application.

In 2016, three times of applications were opened throughout the year. 12 schools were newly added to the program. Maitian also organized the rural schools on the program to participate in the national painting exhibitions held by the China Youth Development Foundation. The works of three students won the awards. Maitian Education Foundation also won the title of the Advanced Unit of China Youth Calligraphy and Painting Academy.

In February 2017, Bazaar Charity Foundation joined hands with Maitian Project and carried out “smart growth package” cooperation;

In December 2017, held the classroom creative and imaginative oriented project training in Changsha;

In December 2017, launched the painting competition of “family portrait”, with nearly a thousand entries and the total votes of more than 100,000; the Rainbow Bag was first launched in September 2014. Each session lasts for 1 year and each session starts every half a year. The projects are crossly implemented. As of the end of July, 2018, a total of 8 sessions have been carried out, involving a total of 18 provinces and 71 cities. A total of 376 schools (including 9 communities), 45,900 students have received the services.