Our Values: We value the individual and we value partnership with the community. Our teams seek to work with the community to establish self-sustaining, self-replicating projects, rather than " doing for" a community. Any activity that continually gives or seek to solve the issues of the community without their intimate involvement would rob that community of ownership, growth, and dignity. Each person is valuable. Each person is important. Each person can contribute to the community.

Once a teaching project is established, we seek that the continued funding for that project will come from within the host country itself rather than continually from outside the country. This means that a sustainable project generates its revenues within the country. It also means that before we even start a project, we consider how the project will have ownership from the local population.

As a practical matter, if a person is given something, we expect that the person will in turn give service to yet another person so that the value is multiplied throughout the community several times more than the original assistance. For most of our English programs, we charge a student fee so that the students can pay the national teachers who will teach them, thus being self-sustainable.