This is taken from a plaque mounted on the wall of the kids room ALIV built when children were in immigration detention centers. It also points out why the rainbow is linked to and so important to ALIV and the families.

Once upon a time a group of people got together and decided to build a play room for all the wonderful children.
But the room was old, dark and gloomy at first. Until one day workers and volunteers from all over Sydney came together and started to build one of the best children's rooms ever.

As the volunteers started to wash off all the old scratched pictures from the walls the children of Villawood detention center poked their heads in to see what was going on. When the children found out their rainbow was about to be washed off they protested and demanded that it not be removed. When the volunteers asked them why all of them said it was because it looked good. That is all except little Scotty.
When he was asked he replied, "Because my mother painted it".

That day the volunteers learnt that just because something isn't perfect to them doesn't mean it isn't perfect to someone else, and important to the world. And because the rainbow was important to the children the volunteers left it there. So in memory of all the children in immigration detention centers the room was thereafter called the "RAINBOW ROOM".

On world refugee day 20th June 2003 the room was officially opened so all the children could enjoy and play in the room happily ever after.