The province is mostly rural and comprises of farms and many areas are reached only by mobile service units and trucks. Many children, mostly from farms did not have birth certificates because their parents themselves did not have identity documents. Some children did not have parents to assist them to apply for birth certificates. The department was addressing this problem at a policy level. The province also established local stakeholder forums in all the municipalities in order to address these and other problems as part of the DHA's outreach programme.