workshops to build the capacities of healthcare providers on the family-centred approach intended for the OVCs. An average 9 500 OVCs have been under care since 2011, thanks to various forms of support (academic, nutritional, health and psycho-social support) in the ten Regions of Cameroon, distributed as follows: 1 000 in the Adamawa, 1 200 in the Centre, 1 500 in the East, 600 in the Far-North, 1 000 in the Littoral, 400 in the North, 700 in the North West, 1 200 in the West, 1 000 in the South and 900 in the South West. Measures being implemented have led to the gradual improvement of the living conditions of OVCs and children deprived of parental care. However, it is regrettable that these actions only focused on one aspect, that of taking care of OVCs. In addition, building the capacities of staff in child care institutions in the field of the rights of the child and the standardization of existing institutions did not follow suit. In the same vein, the insufficient human, technical and financial resources constitute a major impediment to the comprehensive care of children deprived of the family environment. There are plans to proceed with a nation-wide data collection on OVCs, especially those taken care of by institutions, and to assess the said institutions. The project dubbed "Key Interventions to Develop Systems and Services for Orphans and Vulnerable Children” (KIDSS), signed on 13 June 2014 between the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Catholic Relief Services (CRS), and launched on 12 November 2014, will help to provide, by 2019, multifaceted support to an additional 70 000 OVCs in seven urban and peri-urban areas in the cities of Yaounde, Douala and Bamenda. This project will equally help to build the capacities of 14 000 households, train 60 community health workers (CHWs), 20 social workers, 75 persons from CSOs, 135 frontline civil servants and 57 at the regional level, to set up an effective model of holistic care and the improvement of the health continuum to be provided to OVCs. VIII. RIGHTS AND PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE CHILDREN (Art. 13, 22, 23 and 25) a) Handicapped Children (Art. 13) The implementation of the ACRWC led to the realization of specific actions. Regarding legislation, measures taken were related to the adoption of Law No. 2010/002 of 13 April 2010 to promote and protect handicapped persons. This law amends that of 1983 and takes into consideration the concerns of the handicapped child from a holistic perspective (education, health, leisure, etc.). Indeed, it provides for a certain number of positive discriminatory measures in favour of handicapped children, such as the contribution of the State in covering expenses for the education and initial vocational training of handicapped students, the partial or total waiver of tuition fees at the secondary and university levels and the granting of scholarships to children born to handicapped parents. Also worth noting is the continuous implementation of the Joint Circular-Letters of MINAS/MINESEC, No. 34/06 LC/MINESEC/MINAS of 2 August 2006 and No. 283/07/LC/MINESEC/MINAS of 14 August 2007 and MINAS/MINESUP, No. 08/0006/LC/MINESUP/MINAS of 9 July 2008, relating, on the one hand, to the free admission of handicapped children and those born to handicapped parents into public 30