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