Mabuhay, welcome! Come immerse yourself in the reality of Asia.
In Filipino culture, bayanihan is a term used to describe how a village cooperates to move a family's house to another location.
This degree of collaboration is common in the Filipino cultural context and will inspire your own notions of what it means to work together for the benefit of community.
Program features include:
Being immersed and becoming part of a Filipino marginalized community-for example, accompanying street children and their families in metro-Manila or collaborating with community organizers as they build homes and support families
Integrating a reality-based community experience with rigorous academic courses taken at the Ateneo de Manila University
Discovering the unique reality of island culture through visiting remote indigenous villages in the Philippines
Learning the history of a country whose people are the second largest immigrant group in the U.S.
Immersing yourself in a country with two national languages, English and Filipino
