- - - - - - - from some pilot schools were trained on the teaching of national languages. An Ewondo language lexicon and a handbook on reading in the same language have already been produced and are thus available. This work is continuing with other national languages; fighting against malnutrition and encouraging the education of the girl child, with help from the NGO, COUNTERPART, in 150 schools in the North Region. This entails mainly school canteens, with the distribution of dry rations to girl students of classes CE2, CM1 and CM2. In addition, 146 schools received agricultural inputs as well as the training necessary for the setting up of school gardens, ranging in size between 1 and 2 hectares; implementing the project “Ecole Amie des Enfants, Amie des Filles” [School Friend of Children, Friend of Girls] which, under the collective promotion system, is being carried out in priority education zones to reduce class repetition and dropout cases for boys and girls. The strategy is to make the school environment attractive, by building water points and beautifying the surroundings; constructing, in 2014, 10 blocks of two appartments for teachers, including seven in the remote areas of Lake Chad and Bakassi and three in islands and access-difficult areas of Mouanko, Manoka and Vélé; acquiring five engine-driven canoes for the remote areas and islands of Bamusso, Kombo-Abedimo, Idabato, Mouanko and Manoka; assisting in the registration and giving financial support through holiday days and awarding prizes to girls who have performed well in schools; supporting Plan France in the establishment of Savings and Loan Village Associations, which enable parents to save and thereafter get micro-loans to finance the education of their children, and women to be trained on some income-generating activities in order to ensure better schooling for their children; implementing, since 2012, a multilingual intercultural education pilot project within the framework of the project known as “Droits et Dignité des Bakas” [Rights and Dignity of the Baka People] which consists of improving on the schooling of Baka Pygmy children, while maintaining them rooted in their culture. It stemmed from experimenting teaching in the Baka language in eight pilot schools in the East Region, with an enrolment of 734 children, from the start of the 2013-2014 school year. In this regard, the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) produced 421 handbooks composed of spelling-books and mathematics textbooks including Baka cultural values; 421 armboards with the Baka alphabet on the back; eight readings charts; 321 kits distributed to 321 class-one pupils; each kit encompassed an arm-board, a bag, a spelling-book, a mathematics textbook, two double-lined exercise books, a dozen pencils and a pencil sharpener; Concerning Mbororo communities, 256 classrooms have today been constructed; 58 classrooms rehabilitated; 30 water points constructed; 55 latrine blocks constructed; 1 290 scholarships granted to students admitted in form one; 2 350 Parent-Teacher Associations’ members trained; nursery schools constructed and equipped in the area of Sambo, Batouri, East Region. In the same vein, and in terms of support to the establishment of birth certificates, some already taken actions are intended to negotiate for a lower cost relating to supplementary rulings. In this connection, it may be noted, for instance, the establishment of birth certificates by some NGOs, PLAN CAMEROON and VSO; 20