Starting from the "Library of Love (愛的書庫)", we began to pay attention to rural education issues. That was how we came to know 5wayhouse. Initially, 5wayhouse proposed offering discounted shipping fees to those who donate second-hand goods to 5wayhouse. Their concern was that it cost higher shipping rates to transport goods from the west coast to the mountainous east coast. While supporting charity is not a problem, we were more concerned about the possibility of the process being a wasted effort, just sending unwanted items from the West to be thrown away in the East. 5wayhouse responded that only about 30% of the donated items can actually be put up for sale or exchange.

We are willing to cooperate with charitable causes, but we must improve the quality of donated goods. Therefore, we communicate with donors using gift-giving concepts rather than emphasizing eco-consumerism. We encourage organizations to initiate donation activities to remind and constrain each other to send out only neatly organized items. In this way, the quality of the items received by 5wayhouse is improved, and concerns while children sorting products are reduced. Under these conditions, we will of course participate in public welfare and provide discounted shipping rates.

After receiving donated goods and secondhand items, the operational model of 5wayhouse is also innovative, with all operational management, warehousing display, pricing, and sales entrusted to the children. "Why doesn't he want this good thing?" "Why did he send us broken things?" "Monet's paintings are very expensive online, so this cup with his painting should be valuable!" The goods play the role of a bridge between rural areas and the outside world. Work efforts can earn points that can be accumulated to exchange items that the children like in the store, replacing the weakened role of the recipient with "rewards for labor". If formal education is lacking this kind of lecture, alternative education must find a way, because children will eventually enter society and face competition.

Children in rural areas face complex problems, with family dysfunction and economic hardship being the two main issues. Rather than choosing to provide after-school care, 5wayhouse chose to run a shop to address the fundamental problem of family livelihood. By letting "learning how to make money at 5wayhouse" become a legitimate reason for children to leave home, the space simultaneously functions as schools and families that have yet to fulfill., providing a relatively safe haven for the children. Instead of relying on blame and judgment or expecting professional rescue from afar, 5wayhouse's solution to the problem is to provide companionship that is integrated into daily life, connecting and even dragging both sides along through the ups and downs.

5wayhouse raised a new request for a space to organize and store donated items. However, as a logistics company, we are more concerned about "flow" than "stock." Therefore, we had a new operation dialogue. Firstly, we agreed that all donors would want their items to be used, not just stored. Therefore, 5wayhouse must plan a complete process, and the items received can stay for a maximum of one month. If they are not sold, they must be donated to other institutions in Hualien and Taitung, rather than increasing storage space due to reluctance to let go. We hope that 5wayhouse can further become a logistics center for donated items in the Hualien and Taitung area.