Institutional Values

The values with which we identify ourselves are:

  • Love.

  • Solidarity.

  • Equity.

  • Justice.

  •  Transparency.

  • Respect.

  • Identity.

  • Honesty.

  • Coherence.

  • Stewardship.

We are guided by the following principles:

  • We work in the construction of a just, democratic and ecologically balanced society.

  • We promote participatory community development, oriented towards improving life.

  • We enhance the development of creative, constructive and transformative capacities of people.

  • We defend women's rights and fight for the transformation of unequal relationships between genders.

  • We fight for a life free of violence due to gender reasons.

  • We assume popular education as an essential approach that transforms human beings in a personal and collective way.

  • We promote popular organization as a driving force for change processes.

  • We protect and defend natural resources .

  • We promote generational change and intergenerational dialogue.

  • We bet on integral development and the leading participation of diverse girls, boys, adolescents and young people.

  • We give reason for our hope, being a testimony of service, which is based on a liberating ethic, inspired by the example of women and men who offered their lives fighting for a more just and democratic society.

  • Our work is based on the experience of the Santa Marta community, and we assume it as a reference in participatory community development and in the defense of its rights.