A Story of Success and Potential!
Students of Eagle School enjoy a simple meal from their newly funded lunch program (image courtesy of Fanel Leme)
Fanel Leme surrounded by the contents of his first supply run for Eagle School's newly funded lunch program (image courtesy of Fanel Leme)
About The Creator
My name is Michael Plischke, I am 23 years old, and I currently live in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. Experience with industry, societal injustice and, most importantly, societal inaction, made me ask myself just what I thought I was doing with my life. From nearly 4 grueling years of undergraduate engineering classes I earned incredible resolve - resolve that I decided would be best utilized making real change...and I had an idea. That idea was to make an app for people like me; people who, at one or more points in their lives, have felt helpless in changing the world around them. An application for people who desire the time, money, resources or motivation to make changes for the better of society and our environment.
I pushed myself to eventually master Java/Android and Swift/IOS programming with over 5000 hours of soul-crushing work. I lived entirely off savings that I’d rationed and continued to ration, all earned from a multitude of jobs I've worked over the years. I tried finding financial (and volunteer) support with no success. I don’t see value in money beyond what it can get you, and money isn’t what I’m doing this for, so I pushed ahead anyways. I’m doing this because it has become abundantly clear that without major reforms in the ways our society operates, we will soon reach points of no return. Corruption, tyranny and misinformation have spread like wildfire in political processes. Wildfire has also spread like wildfire. If the working class members of our society continue to let a small, wealthy minority of people make all humanity’s major decisions, our species and planet will accelerate to a state of mass extinction before we can unlock humanity's true potential. These are my beliefs, and if they happen to be your beliefs as well, you're in the right place.
Long story short, I’m a man of my word, of action, and of dedication. I will make the ability to contribute to making positive change a reality for everyone - no matter what hurdles I face. I promise this, because if no one succeeds in this task, there won’t be much of a world left to save.