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MISSION
by Barry Doolittle, founder of Barya Lang Web Page Design, Philippines
December 31, 2004.
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My heart has been with the Philippine people since 1986. In 2002 my dream of
returning here to permanently retire became a reality. In actual fact, at age
57, I'm now putting in 12-hour days and enjoying some of the hardest working
conditions of my life as I teach web page design. It's a great life for me
because I've been programming over what is now known as
"The Internet" since 1978.
In the Philippines family
values are strong and the orphaned children can be placed in many homes when
the families that take them can afford the extra mouth to feed. Extended
family members, neighbors, and even total strangers will take in an orphaned
child. Many times this involves sharing the already short supply of rice and
adding one more child to a bed already filled with 3 or more children. Often
times the good Christian family risks their own economic survival when they
take in an orphan. The Philippine government cannot be relied upon to save
these lives, so the people do it out of their love for their neighbor.
These "virtual" orphanages have been the ONLY "safety net" for orphaned
Philippine children for generations.
Finding myself better at teaching business, computer, and marketing skills
than at changing diapers I started
"Doolittle School, a free school"
, in 2003. Philippine young
people learn to make Internet web pages and sell Internet advertising to
support their family units. Internet access is now available throughout
the country and the youth are excited about getting involved. Previously
small family business were restricted to peddling merchandise, driving
jeepneys, generally involving large investments, long hours, and high risk
with very little return.
Today a $100 dollar investment in the Philippines (to buy a very used personal
computer) and the proper training in programming Internet web pages or selling
Internet web pages can return a young person $7 to $8 per day. Compare that
to the $2 to $5 per day that would otherwise be expected, if they could find
a job, and you can see how "Education is the Key".
Currently the Philippine society has millions of people that want work of any
kind. College graduates here endure 100 plus qualified people applying for
each job. Many of my students have held BS degrees from great schools and
have remained unemployed for 2 or 3 years before finding web page design
opportunities through our training. I do not want to turn these people into
"receivers of welfare". I want to give them the education to contribute on
an International basis with the huge market need for "custom designed Internet
web page advertising".
To achieve that goal my students need real people (clients/customers) to
practice making web page designs. For struggling business here in the
Philippines we make many Internet web pages for "free" just to allow the
students to develop their skills.
See our samples and advertisement at:
www.baryalang.com and
www.baryabuysell.com
and learn about how we are making
"Individual Philanthropy",
work. My often
used statement is
"What the world needs now, more than any other time in the
history of mankind, is Individual Philanthropy."
My students believe that completely.
In short, 300 in Philippine Pesos, $6 USD, or $10 SGD
will purchase a custom designed web page that search engines
will find, that will load fast, and be easy to update. We currently put the
pages on
1wbt.com
,
1ph.org, and
1cbt.com,
with free hosting and allow/encourage clients to copy
the pages to anywhere they want. Clients can leave their pages up there for
years to come with NO ADDITIONAL
cost above the one time payment of only (lang) 300 Philippine Pesos, $6 USD,
or $10 SGD.
If you are on some "FREE SITE" and don't want those ever expanding
ads on your web page, please contact us and we can place your web pages on
one of our web sites at very little cost. We can even get you
directed to a world class web site hosting company. We don't do hosting
ourselves, we are educators lang. Let's leave the hosting of web pages to
the professionals that do that as a full time business.
Thanks,
Barry Doolittle, Instructor
Barya Lang Web Page Design
Philippines
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