The Basic Education Program of BGVS is based on the vision and understanding that large-scale efforts are needed, within the Governmental system and outside it, to help increase access of children to schools, to create teaching-learning materials that are of interest and relevance to children so that they are retained in schools, and to provide institutional platforms where children have learning opportunities that are transacted in a joyful manner, which implies reducing and eliminating fear, trauma and boredom from the processes of learning.

BGVS also considers it important that basic education should stress as much on the affective domain as it usually does on the cognitive. Therefore addressing questions of values, feelings and emotions are as important as teaching various subjects. In particular, the BEP lays stress on values such as cooperation, peace, democracy and secularism, within an over all critical pedagogy.