Higher education and youth leadership in productive projects in Chiapas. UNICH and CISC case

Abstract

The purpose of the following article is to present a general overview of the conditions of education in Mexico and Chiapas, where the possibilities of productive projects for young people from indigenous populations who have graduated from higher education in the highlands of Chiapas are investigated. Emphasis will be placed on indigenous women with productive projects, since it is noted that there is even a triple marginalization for this segment of the population, due to the perspective of poverty, gender and belonging to a native people or community. It is worth mentioning that a case of success generated by the Centro de Investigaciones en Salud de Comitán A.C. (CISC) in collaboration with the Universidad Intercultural de Chiapas (UNICH) will be taken, where graduates and students carried out productive projects with the purpose of strengthening the economy of vulnerable communities or their own communities of origin.