About Us
Atawe Design is a website design venture focusing on the empowerment of non-profit organizations, grassroots community movements, social activists, schools, and small businesses in the developing Pacific island nation of Micronesia and beyond. We pride ourselves in providing quality and affordable web design services for our clients empowering them to access global resources.
our name…
Atawe (pronounced, at-ah-way) meaning “to empower others” is a word in the Chuukese language, one of several languages in Micronesia.
our goal…
is to use web design to help connect the local needs of organizations in Micronesia to the vast global resources.
we believe…
that technology can be used to positively affect the organizations whose mission is to bring positive development to the Pacific island nations. We believe that these small developing Pacific island nations have a rightful place in the vastly globalized society. While having a website does not in itself solve their problems, we believe it does give a voice and a channel by which the local needs can be connected with the vast array of global resources.
our inspiration…
is the global social entrepreneurship movement in which individuals find innovative solutions to affect social change. Funds raised from our web design projects help our non-profit organization Outer Islands Partnership, Inc. to provide educational resources, health care, economic development to the remote outer islands of Micronesia. Read more >>
our philosophy…
goes beyond simple and functional web designs; we focus on building partnerships that foster sustainable self-empowerment of people who themselves are agents of change in their local communities. Read more >>
our history…
began in 1998 when the founder Vid Raatior, a native of Micronesia, worked for an Oakland-based non-profit organization that focused on the leadership development of school-based youth activists. His team of high school activists needed to expand their reach through a website, but couldn’t afford to hire a professional web designer. Untaunted, Vid taught himself and successfully designed their website. That led him to start Atawe Design to empower Micronesian non-profits and small businesses. Read more >>
our portfolio…
includes a wide variety of designs for political activism movement, schools, churches, businesses, medical office design, food services, municipalities, etc. Read more >>
our services…
range from building a website from scratch to redesigning a current site to fit new marketing strategies for a client. We may also work with the client’s existing structures such as in a school to design an affordable website. We recently switched to using the robust capabilities of the WordPress open source as a content management system for our clients because it offers reliable ways for them to manage their own websites without paying for expensive proprietary software. Read more >>
