Our Goals and Values
Only LOVE can counteract hate, only HONESTY can counteract fear, and only INCLUSION can counteract division.
GOALS
With this project, we seek to counter the fear and hatred fueled by prevailing false narratives that are harming the entire Iowa community, especially its immigrant members.
We aim to promote core values such as love, inclusion, and honesty. We will counter hate with love, and fear with experiences that foster connection and communality, bridging division by establishing new points of genuine, honest human interaction.
We center on the idea that once the ICE melts, it will turn into water that nourishes the seeds of hope, bringing forth new blooms and growing flowers and trees of resilience. This symbolizes the creation of a sustainable and inclusive Iowa, where we are all connected—an Iowa where the values of love, solidarity, respect, responsibility, honesty, freedom of expression, empathy, kindness, compassion, and humility carry real meaning, rather than being empty words or unattainable ideals.
We envision a community where all its members see themselves as part of a diverse, inclusive, and multicultural whole, collaborating and creating a society where its leaders truly represent and strive to “Make Iowa Nice Again.”
VALUES
In this project, we are guided by three core values: LOVE, HONESTY, and INCLUSION. However, if we work to develop even just one of these values, this simple fact gives life to many other positive values and qualities that will help us achieve our goal of making Iowa a pleasant place.
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LOVE
LOVE is the best way to combat hatred and fear. In its pure essence, it is the intense feeling of UNITY by presenting a feeling of sincere APPRECIATION and affection, where KINDNESS and mutual care are essential to TRUST.
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HONESTY
HONESTY is acting with TRANSPARENCY and TRUTH in all interactions, with RESPONSABILITY, making personal and collective commitments for the common good. RESPECTING, recognizing, and valuing the identities, ideas, and beliefs of others, thus ensuring that each person can communicate their thoughts and ideas without fear.
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INCLUSION
INCLUSION encourages the active participation of all people, values DIVERSITY and differences, generates EMPATHY to attend, accept, and share the feelings of others, and strengthens coexistence and SOLIDARITY where there is COOPERATION and a COLLABORATIVE sense of COMMUNITY.