Julia Moreira, Director ALFA Foundation, remembers the initiative started with a very clear purpose: developing Mexico’s talent and allowing social mobility through education.

The Foundation’s invited and selected students go through a process divided in three stages: entry to the extraacademic program; selection and entry to the ALFA Fundación High School; and accompaniment through national and international college applications.

On June of this year, the first 144 students of ALFA Fundación High School will graduate. Although all of their stories would give you goosebumps, here we’ll share the story of two: Clarissa and Andrés.

Fate had other plans. Clarissa will study in one of the most prestigious American universities dedicated to journalism: University of Texas at Austin.

Clarissa chose this major because she wants to change the world with what she writes: she knows that it is rare to find associations with a cultural focus, investigation projects or publications with quality content in Mexico.

Nevertheless, this mission was not always a viable path: it was at Alfa Fundación High School that Clarissa was told for the first time that her writing was good and she had talent. She is a clear example of how empowering peoples’ talents or passions leads to powerful ventures that may change the world.

“Without the Foundation, I don’t know if I would have chosen journalism. I know I loved reading; I have always been sensitive that way but here my teachers gave value and importance to that passion”.