One of the major obstacles is access to books. Many Filipinos especially those in the poverty lines do not have access to bookstores and public libraries.
What about establishing libraries in the villages? Back in Indonesia I worked in projects where we established libraries in small village and also the local community. My family also established a library in a village where people could borrow and read books. Usually the ones who come are children but also locals, especially students who may need literary references. This could be an answer to that specific problem.
As far as I know the government is exerting efforts to reach those in the poverty line and in rural areas. There are programs like from DepEd’s “Brigada Eskwela” that aims to improve the learning environment of schools, particularly in far-flung and remote areas. There are also non-profit organizations and volunteers reaching the same areas and provides reading materials to people but mostly students. However, even with these efforts it’s still lacking. Even if they have a few resources low literacy rate in those areas are one of the problems. Also, our country’s geography poses challenges to expanding access to books. These problems make it difficult and expensive to transport and distribute books to these locations.
Aside from that our current administration seems to be focusing on other menial things instead🥲