CORE VALUES:

· Respect for Diversity: We must honor, respect and support cultural, ethnic, racial, Sexual, Religious and spiritual diversity within the context of Individual Responsibility to all species.

· Race and Gender Equality: Promoting cooperative interaction and equal rights for Women and minorities to replace ethics of domination/Control. We must encourage people to care about Persons outside their own group.

· Human Rights and Social Justice: We must respond to human suffering in ways that Promote dignity. We must encourage people to commit themselves to lifestyles that promote their own health.

· Community Controlled Education: We must have a community controlled education system that effectively teaches our children academic skills, ecological Wisdom, social responsibility and personal growth.

· Grassroots Democracy: Encouraging and assisting citizen participation at the local level in decision-making.

· Community Based Economics: Ensuring basic material security and social equity for all, using humane, liberating, and ecologically sound techniques.

· Decentralization: Empowering people, institutions, and communities to become more Self-reliant.

· Ecological Wisdom: Respecting nature and using natural resources wisely.

· Peace and Nonviolence: As individual members of Gap-Uganda, we are working for lasting peace at personal, national, and global levels.

· Personal and Global Responsibility: Encouraging healthy lifestyles, taking responsibility for Personal and social growth.

· Future focus: We must think and act in terms of the long-range future, not just for short-range selfish interests. Act with Respect for future generations