CEDAW/C/PHI/Q/6/Add.1 16. The report notes that while the national school participation rate is high, it is lower in remote areas, among street children, those living in extreme poverty, indigenous people and those in living areas undergoing armed conflict (para. 288). Please provide information on specific measures or actions taken to ensure the right to education of girls and women in these groups. The DepEd-Bureau of Alternative Learning System (BALS) cited the following initiatives to address the concerns of out-of school youths, adults and their families: " Mobile Teachers This intervention hopes to make education accessible to out-of-school youth and adults in remote, deprived, depressed, and under served communities. The mobile teacher stays in the barangays to conduct learning sessions with a group of learners until they become basically literate before moving to another barangay. These teachers likewise conduct home visits, individual tutorials, counselling and other special activities in addition to group learning sessions. As of 2004, there were 300 mobile teachers that were trained representing 17 regions. Under this program, there were 20,455 enrolees. Of this number 15,698 were completers, representing almost 77% of the total enrolees, in 2004. " Family Basic Literacy This is a literacy intervention utilizing literate members of the family to help the non-literate members upgrade their literacy skills and improve the educational opportunities of poor families. This project was pilot-tested in 4 provinces in Luzon and was replicated in 4 new sites, namely, Cebu, Southern Leyte, Misamis Oriental and Saranggani. This undertaking targeted 60 families with 300 family members. " Basic Literacy Program through Service Contracting Scheme This is a partnership scheme between the Department of Education and NGOs, private institutions, State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) with extension capacities, LGUs and other GOs. This was implemented in 17 regions with 26,5000 learners served. " Adolescent Friendly Literacy Enhancement Project This project targets out- of -school youth ages 10-19 years old. It provides basic literacy with focus on early marriage and parenting, family planning, drug prevention education, livelihood projects, health and environmental education. It empowers the target beneficiaries with knowledge, attitude, values and skills that will help them better perform their roles as responsible and productive citizens of the country. Orientation workshops were conducted in selected cities in the NCR. " Non-formal Education Accreditation and Equivalency Learning Support Delivery Service It is designed to provide learners a range of alternative pathways in order for them to continue learning outside the formal system and upgrade their skills and competencies in preparation for taking the NFE A&E test. This was implemented in 17 regions with 2, 925 learners. 16