Vidalino (Vid) Raatior was born and raised on the outer island of Houk in Chuuk State, Micronesia. Like all outer island children, Vid left Houk at age 13 to further his 8th grade education on other islands. Unlike most of his peers, Vid had teacher mentors and Jesuits who encouraged him to go on beyond Chuuk High School.

Vid spent the next 10 years abroad to pursue an education. After completing a bachelors degree from the University of Guam, Vid joined the Jesuits and spent the next ten years in training studying at the Manresa Jesuit Novitiate in Palau, Fordham University in New York, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, California, and taught at Xavier High School, Micronesia. Yet throughout those formative years, Vid has never wavered from seeking ways to help his people back in the outer islands.

While he continues to admire the Jesuits for their spirituality rooted in being "men for others," Vid felt he could do more as a lay person. A year after leaving the Jesuits, Vid met Desha in graduate school at University of San Francisco and two years later got married. They now live in Soquel, California with their daughter Keala.

Vid works at the International Programs Office at Santa Clara University as Assistant Director of Study Abroad Programs. In his job, Vid has been able to travel internationally and has seen the transformative power of shared global resources.

His simple vision is to tab into existing resources globally to help his people in the outer islands. The naming of the nonprofit organization mirrors that dream of building global partnerships with people of goodwill, philanthropic organizations, corporations, and college students to help in the three areas of needs in those outer islands; namely, education, healthcare, and economic development.