Needs of the indigenous population

In Baja California Sur, there is no native indigenous population, although a large portion of the migrant workforce is from diverse indigenous groups from the central and southern parts of Mexico. The Migrant Child Program (PRONIM) works to recruit teachers and purchase educational materials for these often impoverished students.[1]  This strategy does not fully address those students’ needs for a number of reasons, including: a lack of government regulations forcing owners of agricultural fields to dedicate a place for PRONIM to build a school; language barriers for students who speak indigenous languages and do not understand Spanish; the lack of books designed for teaching children in languages other than Spanish; and the high level of illiteracy among the migrant indigenous population.

Under these circumstances, the learning process is inefficient for both teachers and students.  Presently, PRONIM has six schools in the Vizcaíno area; in Loreto, there is only one school, which has no electrical power (they use candles for lighting) and the building is in poor condition.  In the La Paz municipality there are just seven schools.