We've found out that about 24% of all barangays in the region do not have schools. This means we have a big number of out-of-school children. because they are not reached by our mainstream delivery model, BEAM-ARMM proposed to undertake alternative delivery of the formal education in these school-less barangays.
Currently, the ADM project is scoping these school-less barangays - is there really no school in the barangay? is there enough 5-year old children to organize a kinder class or enough 6-10 year-old to organize an elementary cohort? Will the situation on the ground allow for ADM to be delivered? and and more are being ask by validators as they go around with DepEd reps, meet with community leaders and inspect the community.
When this is done and the PMU have chosen local NGO partners, it is only then we will finally have an idea as to which of these school-less barangays will be prioritized this year.
