Principles & Values

WDI Operating Principles and Values

The mission of World Dignity, Inc. is driven by its operating principles and values, which guide its selection of projects and their operation:

1. Develops and shapes programs and activities with the people to be affected by those programs. Local culture and “ways of operating” are respected.
2. Makes the highest and best use of volunteers in all its operations.
3. Works only in areas which it knows well or which it can get to know well.
4. Avoids unnecessary burdens for the communities and people it works with. Expenses are kept to a minimum.
5. Considers the long term effects and sustainability of its activities.
6. Enhances the dignity of all the people affected by the programs and activities.
7. Evaluates its programs and activities and incorporates the findings in its operations