| Millions of migrant farm workers travel far from home to plant and harvest crops. They live in rural isolation, working for low wages under hard conditions. Many young migrant children in the United States are taken to the fields because their parents have no other place to leave them while they work. Sometimes young children take care of even younger siblings in camps or fields while their parents are working. These settings can be filled with pesticides and other hazardous materials. Getting migrant children out of unsafe environments is a starting point for the Migrant Head Start Program, but it does more. Migrant Head Start programs answer basic needs for migrant children and their families by seeking to break the cycle of poverty created by moving from place to place. Migrant Head Start offers positive, nurturing child development programs for children from birth to five years of age (35% of Migrant Head Start�s enrollment is compromised of infants and toddlers). The program is center-based, full day and structured to meet the needs of the migrant families. For more information about Migrant Head Start, please follow the link to our web site listed above. |
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