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Guiding Principles

 AMIGOS Volunteers…

  • Value and promote partnerships and participation with local individuals and community groups
  • Value and utilize local knowledge and resources, promoting a positive approach to program planning and implementation
  • Promote shared objectives, communication, and sustained efforts with partners
  • Embrace positive approaches to interactions with partner agency members, community members, and with each other
  • Appreciate and embrace diversity of cultures, ethnicities, ways of living, and thought both within themselves and among their host communities 
  • Are students and learners
  • Are facilitators and catalysts of positive personal and community development
  • Maintain flexibility

 
AMIGOS Voices

“What surprised me were not the differences between cultures, but the connection that I formed with a culture other than my own. Living in Isla Baez was a journey in which I was the pupil and the teacher, the friend and the daughter, the health worker, and the citizen.”

–Laura Nellums, Veteran Volunteer