Mission Statement
The mission of Esperanza International is to free children and their families from poverty through initiatives that generate income, education and health, restoring self-worth and dignity to those who have lost hope.
Values
- Following Christ and living the Gospel in all of our relationships
- Honoring the worth, dignity and potential of every person
- Developing the whole person: body, mind, and spirit
- Strengthening the family
- Fostering a sense of community wherever we serve
- Learning from all those with whom we serve as we endeavor to teach truth
- The earth as God’s creation that we steward for the good of all people
- Achieving excellence in all we do
- Pursuing integrity over image
- Enabling every person to have the opportunity to become all that God intends
Principles
Esperanza’s program principles lead toward and facilitate community-based sustainable development programs focused especially on benefiting children and their families.
Esperanza will promote and support development policies, strategies and activities that:
- Address the root causes of poverty, especially those impacting children, and facilitate activities that lead to improved living conditions, reduced infant mortality, greater life expectancy, better nutrition, improved education, increased income, environmental improvement;
- Focus on families and communities as the agents, planners, implementers and evaluators of the development efforts, where the vision comes from the people, and the ownership is theirs;
- Improve the capacity of people to learn from their experiences of development, to be empowered by that process and to lead more fulfilled lives with greater understanding of the world they live in;
- Free people from the bondage and oppression of cultural, social, spiritual and economic forces that inhibit becoming all that is intended;
- Build alliances and partnerships with other institutions with compatible goals, such as churches, non-governmental organizations and local community groups;
- Lead to more technically appropriate and sustainable activities and practices that contribute to self-sufficiency and self-reliance;
- Encourage systems that ensure accountability and integrity;
- Improve the leadership, management and organizational skills within the families and communities of a project area.
It is our policy to provide assistance to those in need, regardless of religious or political persuasion, and that it will not be withheld for lack of certain sectarian, religious or political beliefs.
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