Integration in Diversity
We are people from different cultures with diverse knowledge, and it's essential to live with this diversity in order to learn from one another and form a team.

Critical Reflection
When faced with problems, it's important to pause and reflect. Thinking as a team allows us to look at each other and learn from that exchange.

Teamwork
Teamwork is what builds the future because we can't get anywhere alone.

Reflective Leadership
As a group of teachers, we always speak in the plural because we work as a collective. We carry this group leadership into every class we teach individually.

Communication and Empathy
These words embody everything we do. For example, one of my students invited me to her birthday. I understood that I wasn’t just her teacher—I was someone she could rely on in her life. She opened the door to her world and her family.

Dialogue and Listening
Since we were young, we were students here, so we understand how important it is to have a space where you feel heard and understood.

Building Diversity
Diversity continues to be—and will always be—a major challenge. Unity in diversity requires time to be built. The more people there are, the more complex the agreements and teamwork become, but so does the power and capacity for transformation.

Commitment
My committed participation in the organization changed the way I live and think. I found a space that allows me to reflect on and redefine my ideals, beliefs, concepts, and ways of life.

What’s worth losing sleep over? What’s worth the heavy bags under your eyes and falling asleep on the train on the way to work? Everyone has a different answer and this summer I found mine in the people I was surrounded by. I realized during my time with Voluntario Global how much of a gift it is to teach, and it is an environment I learned endlessly from. Wordlessly, a group of people gave me permission to tell them what is right or wrong, what is truth. That in itself, is enough to leave me in deep reflection for weeks and months to come.

One of the most common phrases I've heard in the dialect of Spanish spoken here is "tranqui." It's a cognate- it means something along the lines of "calm down" or "be cool." The prevalence of this phrase sums up a lot of Argentine, or at least Porteño culture, and has shifted the way I've viewed my experience as a volunteer and traveler. Quite frankly, I've learned to listen. and live, and to not always feel pressed to take action or solve something. This, of course, does not mean to become ignorant or idle, but to avoid succumbing to self-righteous, western-skewed perspectives.