Alay ni Ignacio
How Pathways was started
In October 2000, a group of Ateneo college students began a journey that would change their lives and countless others forever.
It all started in what seemed like an innocent-enough Theology class under Mr. Harvey Keh. From there, they learned about social justice, equality and brotherhood. They thought long and hard about how all these concepts related to their lives then, even meeting up over several cups of coffee to figure out what to do with these new insights they had.
What came of those mid-afternoon coffee breaks is what is now known as the Alay ni Ignacio Program or simply called ANI.
Now aware of the situation of education in the Philippines, as well as what they could do to concretly make a difference, they envisioned ANI as the venue where they could push for educational development in the high school level.
Thus, that summer and every summer since then, volunteer college students serve as teachers, conducting enrichment and advanced courses in Math, English, Science & Christian Living to selected students from Metro Manila public schools. Their goal is to help prepare and encourage their young pupils to pursue a college education.
From this student-led organization, the Pathways to Higher Education Program was born with the help of a grant provided by the Ford Foundation and guided by the Synergeia Foundation, a coalition of individuals and organizations committed to improve the public education system in the country.
Since then, Pathways has established 4 key satellite offices in South Cotabato, Baguio, and Bulacan. We are currently assisting over 500 public high school students nationwide while supporting 120 college students in various public and private universities in Metro Manila
