EDS' vision is 1) to develop young, honest and responsible leaders and change agents who develop their society and 2) to assist poor families to improve their livelihood through education.

The EDS students develop educational, social and ethical skills and willingness to help others. EDS:

• creates a good learning environment where children/youth are free from fear, motivated to learn, feel appreciated, develop their self esteem and get responsibilities
• continuously dialogues with the EDS students' parents to make them see that and how they can support their children's education
• closely follow up EDS students and their parents for a positive development. We create hope and make  children/youth and their parents believe that they can improve their situation.

Equality and non-discrimination

EDS works for equalty. In EDS no students shall be discriminated against on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, political or sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental ability.

To achieve equality and non-discrimination EDS:

Cooperation - helping others

EDS works to increase the students', their parents' and other community members' ability and willingness to cooperate and help each other for development. To achieve this EDS:

• let students arrange cultural and sports activities where they learn to follow the rules, be leaders and inclusive team players
• let the students be responsible for teaching and helping each other
• gives the students the responsibilities during EDS events
• gives the oldest students the responsibility of leading the EDS group in their area
• motivates the students to respect and behave well with their parents and others

In addition EDS:

• motivates the students' parents to motivate and guide their children by positive motivation instead of punishing them (physically and psycologically) for bad behaviour
• involves community members to volunteer and make them realize how they can use their skills to help the EDS participants

Trust & honesty

All people in EDS should be honest and reliabe. To achieve this the EDS:

• leaders, supervisors and volunteers are role models who follow the EDS values
• trusts the students and their parents to adhere to the EDS values
• does not tolerate corruption
• develops the students to be honest

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little

Franklin D. Roosevelt