Our Apporach to Serving Others By:

• Conducting our affairs in keeping with faith-based principles, both as an organization and as individuals,
• Constantly reminding ourselves that it is God's work we are doing,
• Continually fostering Christian fellowship.

Our Focus By:

• Maintaining education as our principal tool for breaking the cycle of literacy,
• Developing English fluency in listening, reading, writing, and conversation,
• Broadening our activities to include the education of families and others integral to developmental grwoth of our students,
  
• Avoiding restricting our curriculum to best meet their educational needs,
• Utilizing the cultural arts as an adjunct teaching methodology,
• Identifying the next generation of community leaders.

Our Mandate By:

• Pursuing only those activities that are aligned with our mission of addressing the root causes of poverty through an educational program.
  

Our On-Going Commitment to Meeting the Needs of Our Students By:

• Treating every individual with dignity, compassion, respect and sensitivity,
• Serving everyone regardless of gender, age, race, religion, or national origin,
• Instilling a love of and appreciation of knowledge,
• helping people to reach their potential,
• Breaking down the barriers that inhibit our students from learning and communicating.

Our Approach By:

• Developing innovative approaches to reducing the causes of illiteracy,
• Creating opportunities for collaboration, cooperation and mutual support among our staff and other organizations that could beneifti from our endeavors,
• Ensuring that every activity we undertake supports our mision, vision, and values,
• Recognizing that people can achieve their academic goals and providing them with the tools they will need.
• Helping each other to help others,
• Delivering our services without charging tuition to our students.  

Our Stewardship of Contributed Resources By:

• Effectively and economically managing the resources entrusted to us.
• Assuring that benefits of any activity are in keeping with the human and financial costs of delivery,
• Seeking ways of leveraging every activity to support additional goas included in our plans,
• Avoiding at all costs the practice of deficit budgeting,
• Maintaining a strong, diverse and committed board of directors who will ensure excellent financial controls and oversight.
  

A Pursuit of Excellence in All We Do By:

• Demonstrating professionalism,
• Constantly seeking to improve our skills, techniques, materials and approaches.
• Utilizing the services of individuals who have domonstrated success, maturity and leadership in the professions from they are drawn.