Fundacion Mahatma Gandhi

Values

As an organization centered around key values, our vision is supported by a
number of social, cultural and organizational principles. The most essential ones
appear as follows:

Participatory: we act with the people, not for the people, so that the
beneficiaries are active agents and not just recipients of our actions,
transforming their own environments and bettering their own destiny
Egalitarian: we believe in equality among all human beings, valuing the dignity
that results from a shared humanity, regardless of socio-economic classes,
ethnicities, skin colors, gender, educational levels, nationalities, language,
physical handicaps, ages or sexual, political or religious orientations.
Sustainable: we prefer sustainable interventions while recognizing the
difference between short and long-term needs and that each deserves
specialized attention.
Reflexive: there's a need to pause, to try to see beyond what's obvious or
sensorial, to discover the roots of causes and events, thereby becoming better
able to transform our contexts and ourselves.
Creative: we believe in multiple intelligences, in the adequate balance of
cognitive, affective and socio-motor skills; recognizing that men and women,
minors and adolescents, literate and illiterate people, artists and technicians,
possess key components of the needed knowledge; and that, in order to achieve
our goals, it is necessary to look out for many ideas, to attempt many times and to
experiment with a variety of alternatives.
Authentic: people go first and working with people requires honesty, integrity
and sincerity.
Continuous learning: we promise to regenerate ourselves daily, growing
each day in our knowledge of the reality that surrounds us and responding with
intelligence to constant and permanent changes.

Community volunteer Anne
Satin (France) teaching
flute lessons to children.

People and issues exist
simultaneously. In the
midst of that reality it
would be very easy for a
person or for an
organization to lose sight
of the reasons for its
existence. Knowing that,
we've selected values to
ground our efforts, to help
us establish a solid
foundation for our work
and to help us maintain
clearly in mind that people
are our greatest asset and
our indispensable
objective.

Fundación Mahatma Gandhi
Visión Global, Desarrollo Local

Values

"Be the change you wish to
see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi