Values
- Service to Others: Empowering individuals by engendering self-determination, self-sufficiency and
self-help, rather than charity.
- Sacrifice: Recognizing the obligation every individual has to contribute to their community,
despite having to endure great hardship.
- Help the Most Needy: Supporting efforts to reach those in need, those dispossessed, and those most forgotten
individuals.
- Determination: Instilling an attitude that through steadfast commitment, patience, and optimism,
people can overcome great adversity.
- Non-violence: Achieving social and economic justice and equality through bold and courageous
action.
- Tolerance: Promoting and supporting ethnic and cultural diversity as a means toward
informing and strengthening communities.
- Respect for Life: Holding land, people, and all other forms of life in the highest regard.
- Celebrating Community: Sharing expressions of cultural identity through art, song and dance.
- Knowledge: Pursuing self-directed learning, the development of critical thinking, and constructive
problem-solving.
- Innovation: Creating strategies and tactics to resolve problems and situations that often seem
insurmountable.
