Our Values
We believe in real people
We believe in environmental health; we believe in culture and identity, in local autonomy; we believe in trust and support and community. We believe that predefined industrial processes reduce our humanity and only see an objective and a bottom line; we believe that moving forward through the world’s panoply of difficulties does now require top-down, centralized solutions, but necessitates belief in local agents and stakeholders.
As such, we do not focus on projects or disciplines
But we focus on people and we focus on possibility. This necessarily requires a diverse outlook and following emerging paths rather than establishing your own desires and needs. To be more precise, service must respond to local socio-environmental context, cannot presuppose points of engagement.
Our values have evolved from over a generation of direct socio-environmental community work in southern Mexico and more broadly in Latin America.