The following paper gives information about a study done by BID. This study was related to quality of different educational and care approaches of centers where children who are afro descendent and form original peoples are attended. This research was done through a qualitative and quantitative design and tried to answer some questions related to the kind of education that early infancy is receiving; a first one was referred to the access to educational system of infants and a second one was related to quality of these educational centers. The research was done during 2005 in three countries: Colombia, Ecuador and Perú; it considered some documental sources, with official statistic data and other sources of this kind; it also considered some empirical approach with some visits to different centers with different approaches to early education that were available for children form the groups before stated. In this paper some of the main conclusions are described and only in relation to our original peoples. In some cases the information is based on textual data of the study and in others, are variations of these information of the original text.

Research, infant education, preschool education, intercultural bilingual education, indigenous education.