Who we are
ANIHAN TECHNICAL SCHOOL is a technical-vocational institute owned by the Foundation for Professional Training, Inc. (FPTI), a non-profit organization promoting lifelong development for women.
Anihan Scholars
Anihan scholarship grants are given to financially challenged female senior high school graduates. With the scholarship grants from Anihan, these young women are guaranteed immediate employment after graduating from either Anihan’s Culinary Arts and Restaurant Services (CARS) Program or Anihan’s Watsons Apprenticeship Program (WAP). With Anihan’s training programs, graduates are also equipped to either start their own micro-business or pursue higher education, if they wish to do so.
Anihan graduates
and the FPTI Mentoring System
Anihan has a 100% employment track record. It has consistently produced graduates who are equipped with the knowledge, skills and work attitudes and values that match the industry’s needs therefore making them job-ready.
Since Anihan’s establishment, there are now over 1,500 Anihan graduates many of whom are the bread-winners of their families, sending their siblings to school, and financing the purchase or improvement of their homes.
To complement the holistic education it provides, Anihan implements the FPTI mentoring system through which each student is provided with a personal mentor or coach to help her in character development and in Christian formation. These mentors are graduates of the FPTI schools who volunteer their time as a way of giving back for the benefits they themselves had received.
Anihan Industry Partners
Anihan scholarship fund
Anihan’s full-tuition scholarship grants given to 100 to 120 young women is made possible year after year through the sales of the Anihan Goodies produced by the Anihan Livelihood Center for the specific purpose of raising scholarship funds. Proceeds from the Anihan Livelihood Center help sustain Anihan’s scholarship programs by covering about 40% of the school’s operating expenses.
The Anihan patrons, a group of volunteers committed to assisting Anihan, also tirelessly solicit donations and grants from individuals, companies, and institutions both local and foreign.
OUR VISION
OUR MISSION
Anihan shall support the development of women, especially the less privileged, through education imbued with Christian values and skills training in hotel and restaurant services and home related courses, and thereby contribute to nation building.
Our Purpose
Our Core Values
Excellence
Integrity
Continuity
OUR HISTORY
In 1986, Anihan Technical School was established by the FPTI to take on the challenge of lack of skills and job opportunities among women living in the margins of CALABARZON’s agro-industrialized areas. A one-floor building of about 300 sq. meters was built under a grant from the Istituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria (ICU) of Italy that could accommodate 50 students. Anihan began to offer young women two-year technical-vocational courses with job opportunities in institutional services.
In 2002, with the help of a grant from the Belgian government through ACTEC, a Belgian-based NGO, two additional buildings were added to serve a growing demand: one school building with four (4) additional classrooms and a complete kitchen laboratory; and a livelihood center building. This enabled Anihan to almost triple the number of its students from 50 to 120, with an upgraded program oriented to jobs in the booming food service industry.
In 2016, the Philippines implemented nationwide a major educational reform mandating basic education to increase from 10 to 12 school years through Republic Act No. 10533, “An Act Enhancing the Philippines Basic Education System by Strengthening its Curriculum and Increasing the Subject Courses for Basic Education”. Anihan enriched its original two-year tech-voc program with the full senior high school (SHS) curriculum and is duly registered to offer the SHS technical-vocational track program specializing in Food Service.
In 2018, Anihan partnered with the Jollibee Group Foundation through its ACE (Access, Curriculum, Employability) Scholarship Program and started offering the Quick Service Restaurant Operations (QSRO) program. QSRO is a one-year skills-bridging course that equips public SHS graduates with the skills required in the labor market for effective and immediate employment in the food industry.
Adult Women in the Communities
Adult women in communities also benefit from Anihan through an adjunct project, the Anihan Livelihood Center, where artisan baked goodies are produced to help raise scholarship funds. Women from communities receive job-specific training before they are employed. Proceeds from the Livelihood Center help sustain the Anihan scholarship program by covering about 40% of the school’s operating expenses.
In 2016, the Philippines implemented nationwide a major educational reform mandating basic education to increase from 10 to 12 school years through Republic Act No. 10533, “An Act Enhancing the Philippines Basic Education System by Strengthening its Curriculum and Increasing the Subject Courses for Basic Education”. Anihan enriched its original two-year tech-voc program with the full senior high school curriculum and is duly registered to offer the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (SHS) TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL TRACK PROGRAM specializing in Food Service. Anihan also offers a one-year skills-bridging program to SHS graduates as well as short courses for adults.
2018 saw the launching of the newest Anihan extension building which features a science laboratory, a computer laboratory, additional classrooms and offices.
In 2016, the Philippines implemented nationwide a major educational reform mandating basic education to increase from 10 to 12 school years through Republic Act No. 10533, “An Act Enhancing the Philippines Basic Education System by Strengthening its Curriculum and Increasing the Subject Courses for Basic Education”. Anihan enriched its original two-year tech-voc program with the full senior high school curriculum and is duly registered to offer the SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (SHS) TECHNICAL-VOCATIONAL TRACK PROGRAM specializing in Food Service. Anihan also offers a one-year skills-bridging program to SHS graduatesas well as short courses for adults.
Inspiration
The establishment of Anihan was inspired by the teachings of St Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Catholic Church. His profound vision of the problems of society encourages all persons, especially professionals, to put their work at the service of development. “A man or society that does not react to suffering and injustice and makes no effort to alleviate them is still distant from the love of Christ’s heart.”
(Christ is Passing By, no. 167)
More specifically, St Josemaria had a deep faith and a comprehensive understanding of the potentials and capabilities of women even during a time in history when women were not as active in the various professional fields. One of the first women members of Opus Dei recounts that one afternoon in November 1942, St Josemaria, while talking to them, spread out a chart showing the different projects that he was envisioning the women of Opus Dei to carry out in the world: “Agricultural schools for women farmers, professional training schools, university residences, activities in the fashion industry, maternity homes in cities all over the world, book-mobiles bringing wholesome and educational reading to the most remote villages, bookstores…. Slowly folding up that chart, he said: ‘There are two possible reactions to all this. One is to think it’s very nice, but an impossible dream. The other is to trust in the Lord, to trust that if he asks this of us, he will help us make it a reality. I hope you react the second way.” (cf. “The Founder of Opus Dei: The Life of Josemaría Escrivá” by Andrés Vázquez de Prada, Vol. 2, Chap. 5.9)
“Development, maturity, emancipation of women should not mean a pretension to equality, to uniformity with men, a servile imitation of a man’s way of doing things … women would turn out losers, not because they are better than men or worse, but because they are different.”
“…In this sense, a woman’s emancipation means that she should have a real possibility of developing her own potentialities to the fullest extent – those which she has personally and those which she shares with other women.”
“…A woman’s femininity is genuine only if she is aware of the beauty of this contribution for which there is no substitute – and if she incorporates it into her own life.”
THE FOUNDATION FOR PROFESSIONAL TRAINING, INC.
Board of Trustees, Officers and Members
2020-2021
Punlaan is a center of excellence in vocational training that enhances the effectiveness of young women in the performance of their varied roles in family life and nation-building, enabling them to achieve a quality of life consistent with their human dignity, thus effectively alleviating them from poverty.
- President/Chairperson
- Vice President/Vice Chairman
- Executive Director/Board Member
- Corporate Secretary/Board Member
- Imelda G. Nibungco
- Marietta C. Gorrez
- Rosario D. Mijares
- Ophelia P. Mascardo
TRUSTEES
- Marie Rose G. Marcella
- Jane A. Pulido
- Loreen Anne P. de Guzman
- Arlene C. Keh
- Ana Felisa B. Pastelero
- Elizabeth G. Mendoza
- Maria Adiel F. Aguiling
MEMBERS
- Ma. Luisa Y. Yu
- Marie Jocelyn P Schallenberg
- Elvira S. Verano
- Fe Gladys B. Golo
- Ruby Ann C. Villanueva
- Carmen L. Picazo
- Antoinette B. Bolaños
- Charlene D. Ching
- Maria Fredesvinda H. Yoingco
- Lorebel D. Degala
Anihan School Management
- School Director
- Vice Director for Academics
- Vice Director for Student Affairs
- Anne Marie N. Jacinto
- Maria Margarita A. Cadiente
- Maria Theresa E. Nabatar
