• a future where all children have access to education
• a future where every woman and man has the chance to lead a dignifying and productive life
• a future where both women and men have the opportunity to access labor market and create productive, employment-generating activities
• a future where we respect individual and community interest and our natural environment.

• it does not give charity. It builds self-reliance, empowering people to achieve permanent solutions to poverty.

• its programs do not create dependence on external sources.

• it works at the heart of the problem. You have the chance to participate at the cutting edge in transforming the critical issues for humanity’s future — the empowerment of young man and women, and the globalization of wealth.

• it is strategic. It is powerfully positioned to catalyze what must be done to support education in the key areas where action is required.

• it utilizes your resources in innovative and high-leverage ways.

• it allows you to put your resources to the best possible use — the benefit of all humankind.

• it invests in people, exploiting partnership with the most experienced and committed collaborators around the world.

• it mobilizes all sectors of society to work together — government, business, academia and grassroots organizations.

• it makes a difference at both grassroots and leadership levels, enabling young men and women to transform their lives, and leaders to translate local experience into lasting, society-wide changes.

• it works with people to make their own government more effective.

• it works in partnership with local organizations and builds alliances within countries to achieve results far beyond those which could be accomplished with HUMANITAS resources alone

• it empowers people to create their own vision, set their own priorities, and establish their own lasting programs to meet challenges of health, education, nutrition, family income and rights for women. These programs are based almost entirely on people's own locally available resources.

• it links people to existing in-house resources and trains people to mobilize their own resources.

• it never imposes external solutions in any community. Instead, it mobilizes and develops committed local leadership - to empower grassroot people to succeed in their self-reliant efforts.

• it focuses on the capacity-building of the people themselves - rather than on material handouts - the change that results is inherently sustainable.

"You make a living by what you get,

but you make a life by what you give."

Winston Churchill