Our Design and Strategy Principles.
- Building and maintaining a connection of empathy, dignity and valuing between the issues of the poor and the rich..
- Leveraging and empowering already available resources, wisdom, time, skills and efforts of people.
- Approaching complex and interwoven challenge of poverty and discard in a human-centered and community driven way.
- Equipping end users in cities and villages to thrive and evolve sustainably.
- Listening deeply to our rural communitieswith humility, treating people with dignity and respect.
- Working alongside. We facilitate, nudge and empower our partners and communities environmentally and socially to infuse new life and vitality into their communities.
- Being responsive. We are constantly learning, incorporating and addressing from the reality of changing communities, contexts and deepening relationships
- Evolving solutions with, not for the communities we work with.
- Rooting Ideas in Community. Our on ground strategies are built from the context, cultures, knowledge, wisdom, resources, needs, and aspirations of the rural communities we work with.
- Principles Driven. Our reflection, decision-making and action, in the face of complexity and uncertainty is driven by our guiding principles.