The Philippines Department of Education, Culture and Sports offers a Livelihood Skills Development Programme, designed to help solve the unemployment and underemployment problem of the country by equipping the youth with skills in handling technical/vocational jobs. In 1986, a total of 18,300 livelihood development classes were held in the 13 regions with a total enrolment of over 360,000. Of these, 270,000 successfully finished their courses. In 1987, 21,000 classes were organized with a total enrolment of over 480,000 and almost 340,000 successful graduates.