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Our core values are responsibility & sustainability, respect & dignity, service & partnership and economic transparency.
Responsibility & sustainability: You will be working with principals and staff to enhance their own teaching capacity, not taking the place of any local teacher or member of staff. Each volunteer placement is part of a considered programme with specific aims to enhance local abilities not to replace them. The price includes a donation which ensures that your volunteer placement is in no way subsidised by the project.
Respect & dignity: mutual respect for personal and cultural dignity involves listening to each other and learning from each other. The local people with whom you live and work are your hosts – your knowledge and perceptions will differ from theirs, but both sets of values are equally valid. You will be fully prepared for your placement, and given guidance on how to maximise the potential mutual benefits.
Service & partnership: We work together with the Project Management Team – all of whom are local people - in matching you and your skills to the specific requirements of the schools and the project. In this way, we facilitate partnerships between you and the project where your volunteer input is part of a larger programme and not just a drop in the ocean!
Economic transparency: the price of the placement is paid by you straight to the Project Management Team, not to us – at least 80% of the price remains where it is needed most, in the host country and your project donation is used exclusively for this project.
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