TakingITGlobal: Inspireer, Informeer, Involveer

To enhance the capability and productivity of indigenous organizations, leadership, and people who are committed to poverty relief and community empowerment. Our dream is to see indigenous organizations, leadership and people become excellent at reproducing their ability to promote poverty relief...
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To enhance the capability and productivity of indigenous organizations, leadership, and people who are committed to poverty relief and community empowerment. Our dream is to see indigenous organizations, leadership and people become excellent at reproducing their ability to promote poverty relief and community empowerment into other impoverished contexts.
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Dignity

* We promote the dignity, potential and health of people and communities regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, and creed.
* We emphasize shared responsibility
* We provide our staff and volunteers with liberal access to the tools they need to get the job...
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Dignity

* We promote the dignity, potential and health of people and communities regardless of ethnicity, age, gender, and creed.
* We emphasize shared responsibility
* We provide our staff and volunteers with liberal access to the tools they need to get the job done

Respect

* We listen to our partners and allow their voices to influence the strategic ends, planning and execution processes of our organization
* We are committed to boundary our agendas and contributions in a manner that honors the wishes of the context we are working in. As such we employ the discipline of asking both for permission to contribute and for approval of the form of our gifts.
* We relate to indigenous people without condescension
* We are motivated by the Christian principle of compassion, love, justice and mercy and we do not tolerate any negative treatment of people belonging to other faiths or those of no faith at all.

Capacity Building

* We invest in the growth of leaders, staff and volunteers who influence the development of organizations, communities and individuals.
* We pay devoted attention to process (how we do what it is that we do) as well as objectives and results
* We build cooperative relationships with organizations and leaders who promote similar strategic ends.
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Bridges of Hope has countless opportunities for anyone who wants to exercise their heart with a voice or a pen. Volunteers can become advocates by talking to those around you about the issues of today: poverty, AIDS, child laborers, orphans, street children, child soldiers, sexual exploitation,...
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Bridges of Hope has countless opportunities for anyone who wants to exercise their heart with a voice or a pen. Volunteers can become advocates by talking to those around you about the issues of today: poverty, AIDS, child laborers, orphans, street children, child soldiers, sexual exploitation, slavery, unsafe water, children not in school, maternal death rate, refugees, night commuting children, human rights, justice.

You can become a Bridges Of Hope Advocate for your place of employment, church, sports league, club, home group, or business associates. We will equip you with direction and guidelines, promotional materials, brochures, project proposals and other written literature.
Please complete the Advocate Profile at the following site and return it to the B.O.H. office.
http://www.thebridgesofhope.com/index.php?menu=working&page=Volunteer
Thank you.
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