Making a Difference In The Community
Local Man Spreads His Vision and Wealth Young and Gifted Students Across America

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, August 1, 2002

Los Angeles, CA- When Los Angeles based businessman Roosevelt Roby glanced at a local news special on high school kids, he was mortified to hear students discuss the lack of jobs available once they graduated from school. After listening to one student complain that there wasn’t enough programs and training courses being offered to help them find jobs and start their own business to help become an entrepreneur, he knew that something needed to be done immediately. So, with nothing more than an outline, and a successful new idea about his home based business the Global Internet Trade Course, he wondered if this would work just as well as it has with members of the home based businesses and began to explore this idea. He shuffled the idea to anyone who would listen, and within six months his program was implemented into the Los Angeles Unified School District Course Curriculum. “I knew that these kids needed something or someone to say, hey you can do this and my program was just what these kids needed,” said Roby.

Roby developed this Global Internet Trade Course in 1998 after the success of his own home based business, The World Business Exchange Network (www.wbe.net). Since then he has donated in cash and in kind over 2.5 million dollars to schools, particularly those in low- income communities. “This program has helped so many kids turn their lives around, and has allowed
them to take control over their studies so once they completed high school they would have already had the proper training,” said Roby. The Global Internet Trade Course focuses on teaching students how to negotiate and close export trade deals with foreign foreign countries, and in the process teaches students how to think logically and improve their written and oral communication skills.
“Taking this course and having the access to work with and talk with different people across the globe has been the most rewarding for me,” said 17 year-old Johnell Holbert.

Holbert who is a senior at King Drew Magnet School of Science and Medicine in South Los Angeles says that after graduation he wants to market classical music C.D’s to foreign countries, an eventually open his own C.D. manufacturing Dr. Clarkson Principal of Mid City Magnet and Charter School.
“If there is one thing that I could say that kids benefited most from, outside of taking regular course curriculum, I would say taking this Global Internet Trade Course. Not only does this course help prepare them for the real world, it also gives them the confidence to want to work harder.”
If interested in getting involved with this program or in implementing it into your local school or community centers contact the World Business Exchange Network at
1-800-537-7347 or write to 5777 W. Century Blvd Suite 1685 Los Angeles, CA 90045 or log on to their web-site at www.wbe.net.