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A web site that makes others' dreams come true
Tuesday January 29, 2013 08:54:27 AM,
EFE
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New York:
Argentine Martin Parlato has created a web site so that netizens
can help make other people's dreams come true, a project he began
in honour of his father who died when he was a child.
The US-registered site Posibl.com, which went online last November
and has already helped several youngsters fulfill their dreams,
began out of "personal necessity", Parlato told EFE.
"I believe social networks have an immense potential to be truly
social and perhaps the way they are used is not focused on that.
That's why I felt the need to create a tool that was different,"
he said.
Parlato recalled that his father - the son of an Italian immigrant
who died when he was seven - "gave me some very clear ideas about
finding people who have needs, getting involved in their lives and
changing them completely - and being generous with whatever
success one might have".
He said that on Posibl.com, people tell what dreams they have that
are in need of help, and can then receive that help in numerous
ways over this platform - one of them being with cash donations,
as occurred, he said, with a child in the Argentine city of
Cordoba needing a transplant of mother cells, to whom a company
donated $60,000 to have the procedure done in China.
Another way is to put the person with the dream in contact with
someone who can help it come true, maybe by giving a gift like a
wheelchair or just by providing moral support.
The Argentine, who wants to move his company headquarters to New
York, is holding meetings these days in the Big Apple with
possible investors and with foundations that want to affiliate
with Posibl.com.
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