• Improvements in number of and training for teachers at all levels, especially in rural areas.
• New school construction, especially in rural areas, with sufficient equipment, such as electricity, air conditioning units, computers, libraries, and furniture.
• Continued maintenance of school infrastructure, including sports fields and community spaces.
• Transportation for middle and high school students to distant schools.
• Dormitories for children and youth from rural, otherwise isolated, communities.
• Scholarships for low-income youth to attend university and technical schools.
• Design of professional and vocational training programs that can cover specific regional necessities, including courses on cattle raising and fishing.
• Increased availability of culturally-appropriate education for agricultural migrant workers and residents of rural communities.
• Support for students with learning disabilities through extracurricular classes.
• Increased availability of courses for sexual education for teenagers and youth.
• Educational enrichment programs in English, Computer Science, Music and the Arts.

Opportunities for Philanthropy

Giving

• Help create parent teacher associations (PTAs) and parent/community managed trust funds fideicomisos to facilitate charitable giving for public schools.
• Help students stay in school by providing scholarships, transportation fees, tutorial and mentoring programs, and/or financial incentives for achieving academic excellence.
• Teacher training and scholarships for exemplary teachers.
• “Adopt-A-Bus” – purchasing buses and providing maintenance costs for local school transportation.
• Equipping existing schools with updated computers, software, and library reference materials in Spanish.
• Support for nonprofits that provide meals, school materials, uniforms, and scholarships, up to 100% of academic expenses.
• Constructing Special Learning Centers and workshops for the disabled to provide professional and vocational training.
• Purchase equipment, teaching materials, and technical training for the hearing and visually impaired.
• Purchase of transportation vehicles and orthopedic equipment for the physically impaired.
• Support the construction of dormitories (Internados) to permit rural children and youth to attend school.
• Creating daycare centers with flexible hours to benefit working mothers.
• Providing courses on craftsmanship, cooking, recreational, and cultural events for rural communities.
• Endow or sponsor higher learning programs aimed at covering regional economic specializations, such as programs at the Technology Institute and UABCS.
• Support for ongoing sexual education programs targeting youth to prevent pregnancies, sexual violence, and sexually-transmitted diseases.

Volunteer Opportunities

• Reading tutors to assist adults enrolled in elementary education classes.
• Extracurricular tutoring for elementary school students with learning disabilities.
• English and computer science instructors to offer ongoing classes and enrichment programs at public schools for children, youth and adults.
• Sexual health educators to work with women from rural areas.
• Professional instructors with knowledge of new, more efficient techniques to teach workers, including fishermen and ranchers, how to improve their operations, as well as basic vocational training.