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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 communitiesÂ
- Are students and learners
- Are facilitators and catalysts of positive personal and community development
- Maintain flexibility
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“AMIGOS increased my self-confidence, provided me with an opportunity to experience life outside of the United States, and taught me the invaluable lesson of how people can achieve challenging goals through cooperation.”
–Veteran Volunteer
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