Education

that transforms destinies

Meet Clarissa and Andrés, students of ALFA Foundation whose lives transformed after walking through its halls.

Education that transforms destinies

Meet Clarissa and Andrés, students of ALFA Foundation whose lives transformed after walking through its halls.

Its been 5 years since ALFA Foundation opened its first Extraacademic Center. Today three centers and Alfa Fundación High School exist.

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.

Education that empowers

Clarissa Rodríguez comes from a public high school in Los Ramones, Nuevo León. The plan was that she would study at a public college, like her older sisters.

Education that empowers

Clarissa Rodríguez comes from a public high school in Los Ramones, Nuevo León. The plan was that she would study at a public college, like her older sisters.

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”.

Education that saves

“If I had to summarize my experience at the Foundation in one word, I would choose ‘transformation’. If I hadn’t studied here, I’d probably be dead”.

Educación
que salva

“If I had to summarize my experience at the Foundation in one word, I would choose ‘transformation’. If I hadn’t studied here, I’d probably be dead”.

The beginning of Andrés Alvarado’s story is one many of us know: a high school student lowers his grades after getting involved with a gang. If Andrés was like any other kid, his story and life would probably end there.

His path transformed when he was chosen to study at the Extraacademic Center. He arrived five years ago with the Center’s first generation. The quality of the Centre’s teachers is what most impressed him. Coming from a public high school were if you didn’t understand there were no further explanations, arriving at the Foundation was like finding a gold mine of capable and committed teachers.

His participation in different activities in the Foundation inspired him to become general manager of an educational project were they give tutoring in several public high schools. He will continue this project even after graduating.

Andrés has been accepted at the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM) where he’ll study Sustainable Innovation and Energy Engineering.

THE TEACHERS

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