Transforming as a Community
A Message from Mr. Alberto Baillères
The Alberto Baillères Foundation emerges from the conviction that education is a powerful instrument that offers children and young people the possibility to increase their opportunities for subjective well-being and collective development. This can translate into greater prosperity and better conditions of equity and justice that help to strengthen the social fabric and reinforce ties of trust and a sense of community in learning environments.
As individuals and as Mexicans, we are compelled to help improve —beyond the scope of our entrepreneurial work or professional activities— the social and human development perspectives of our country’s underprivileged communities. To be able to do so is not only a commitment, but a privilege. This is why, since 2009, we at the Alberto Baillères Foundation have promoted numerous education initiatives that help to meet the learning and educational needs of Mexican children and youth, and that increase options for social mobility and quality of life improvement among socially and economically vulnerable communities.
Our Social Model links several actors who are part of the education community or are related to the school environment —students, educators, senior staff, parents, other family members, administrative staff, authorities, suppliers, and other local actors— as protagonists and transformers of their own reality. Hence, the slogan that encompasses the subject matter and collective character of this proposal by the Alberto Baillères Foundation was defined: “Transforming as a community.”
The Alberto Baillères Foundation intends for its Social Model to become a standard transferable to other school communities and promote —from the collective will and desire for improvement— the collaborative creation of new educational spaces for many, many more children and youth.
