Developing Indigenous Resources is an organization created for the purpose of alleviating suffering and contributing to the development of less-privileged communities throughout the world.  Our first priority is to improve the quality of life where this is most needed in developing countries.   Any history of international development indicates that many of even the best-intentioned efforts of outsiders have - in the long run - failed because of unacceptability due to insurmountable barriers - usually cultural or religious.  Any gains they made were temporary and became lost when assistance ended as it inexorably must.

It may be observed that when serious problems have been permanently solved, they have been solved by the people who have the problems.

Because of these observations, DIR will not set out to solve the problems of communities in need; we will instead facilitate the development of local indigenous resources so that the people are enabled to solve their own problems in self-sustaining ways.

It is our policy to incrementally reduce our input as a community demonstrates that specific efforts are no longer needed, and to phase out activities entirely as soon as practical and thereafter transfer our input to other more needy communities. 

DIR provides assistance wherever it can without preference on the basis of nationality, class, race, creed, skin colour or any other distinguishing physical characteristic other than need.