Global Action Plan International – our world view

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Words that describe the kind of values we stand for and how they are incorporated in what we do.

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new modelthat makes the existing model obsolete

We choose to focus on solutions Buckminster Fuller| Image: Flickr.

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you always got

Albert Einstein | Image: speedy-bradyWe focus on action

Start where you are, use what you have,do what you can

Arthur Ashe | Image: WikipediaWe focus on what is possible

Chinese proverb| Image: Wikipedia

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, to be certain is to be ridiculouß

We believe everyone is a learner – and everyone is a teacher

Despair presumes it knows what will happen next

Rebecca Solnit| Image: FlickrWe expect the unexpected

Change happens when there is a reasonable balance between dissatisfaction and hope

Warren Ziegler | Image: babyinblue at deviantARTOur programs fan the flames of both dissatisfaction and hope

Eric Hoffer | Image: FlickrOur programs are designed to extract learning from experience

The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart, head and hands, and then work outwards from there

Robert Pirsig | commons.wikimedia.comThe problems may be global and systemic, still change starts within each of us

We must all live together as brothers,or we will all perish together as fools

Martin Luther King Jr| Image: WikipediaWe believe in partnership and cooperation

Be the change that you want to see

Mahatma Gandhi | Image: FlickrOur programs support individual and collective change

We choose to focus on solutions

We focus on action

We focus on what is possible

We believe everyone is a learner – and everyone is a teacher

We expect the unexpected

Our programs fan the flames of both dissatisfaction and hope

Our programs are designed to extract learning from experience

The problems may be global and systemic, still change starts

within each of us

We believe in partnership and cooperation

Our programs support individual and collective change

GAP is about empowering people to live increasingly sustainably – at

home, at school and at work.Join us.

Global Action Plan International | globalactionplan.com | secretariat@globalactionplan.com