Chinese Proverb
History
How this all started.
As a kid, I played outside almost any chance I had. I explored the world around me, and I was always amazed by how everything worked, and in most cases, worked so seamlessly. I watched birds fly through the air, trees and plants flow with the wind, birds create nests in the trees, different insects traveling all around, clouds gliding smoothly through the sky, and I was always fascinated. The world was always so beautiful. Eventually, I came across "Star Trek: The Next Generation" which first aired in 1987. The show created a sci-fi environment that I knew I wanted to be a part of that future. The Star Trek franchise had everyone from every ethnicity and broke a lot of boundaries while doing so. Star Trek had one of the first Gay Asian actors, gave African American men and women leading roles, and constantly had people from every ethnicity and still does. The show often showed inter-racial and even inter-species relationships. The opening theme would play the words
"Space... The final frontier.
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
Its continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds.
To seek out new life and new civilizations.
To boldly go where no one has gone before."
Each episode would focus on themes and lessons that taught all of the viewers about life, and how we can make a difference and improve the world around us. However, as I grew up, I kept seeing a world that was not like Star Trek. I did not understand why, and to this day, I still have difficulty understanding why. Why is there garbage on the street, when we can easily not throw garbage on the street. Why is there war, when we can do so much for peace. Why do we keep making problems, when we can fix problems. Why do people hate each other for not being each other. We came from a species with no language, no fire, no tools, no clothes, and walking around and scavenging, to a world of self-driving cars, AI, and phones that access the internet which contains the sum of all human knowledge. We can connect with videos to almost anyone in the world. We are in space and have been to the moon. Yet, in places like Myanmar, children die because they do not have enough to eat. People in Africa are fighting wars they never started. Countries are trying to take over other countries. Did we achieve all of this power and technology for too many people to have so little? We can do better.
I have a background in IT. I worked in IT for over 12+ years as a Systems Engineer. For all of those years, I learned new technologies. I learned how to use and implement those technologies, create documentation, combining different systems, virtual systems, programming, automation, training peers, and manage over 2,500+ computers, 2,000+ devices, servers, and all the various equipment associated with IT.
Eventually (during Covid-19), I left my job, and wondered about poverty. Since I was unemployed, I was "technically" in poverty. How would I get out of poverty? As I used my IT skills of research and data gathering, I realized that there is little to no actual documentation on getting out of poverty. Yes, there are numerous videos and articles and concepts about getting out of poverty like spend less, save more, get a raise, get a job, get a better paying job, but how to actually do things was limited. Then I wondered, how do we have so much documentation on Microsoft Office with videos and tutorials (millions of search results), yet little to nothing on how to actually get out of poverty. (This website has taken a focus on poverty in South East Asia. Poverty exists throughout the world and exists at different levels. One of the main emphasis was the idea that agriculture can help an entire community offset expenditure, grow new products, create new products, market new products, and get out of poverty in a united effort, as opposed to each individual or family. In the community dimension, these types of systems are far more fault tolerant and successful.)
After speaking with my family, having their support and ongoing support, friends, and people helping a long the way. This website was to utilize my IT skills and apply my IT knowledge, methodologies, and create actual how-to's and provide real solutions and not just theory. How we can give back to communities like the ones we came from. How to help people in poverty, and how people in poverty can be helped. As I researched and analyzed poverty more and more, I realized that some of the solutions are actually quite simple.
Quite simply put, this website provides real documentation, data, and steps on how to help people in the world through a few ideas that can be scaled to limitless potentials.
Vision
Our family's, friend's, and many people of the world's vision is that some day, we can live in a world where no child and family are in poverty and lives with malnutrition. We can solve all of these things and help everyone. We can create the "Garden of Eden" on earth. We can help others and show others how they can help feed the word.
Imagine a world of 8 billion people trying to make the world better. Who can stop us if there is no one left that wants to stop us? Things are really that simple. How can we make this the best life for everyone of us? We can heal the world.
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