334. Children infected with HIV/AIDS and who started ART throughout the country have been traced and offered a monthly financial contribution as support for family members‟ nutrition and children‟s education. About ERN 83,078,342.50 fund provided by the Global Fund (2004 – 2016) is used for monthly cash assistance to 12,958 HIV/AIDS infected persons. The aim is to improve their nutritional status and enhance their immune system. These interventions have alleviated the family problems and improved the diet of the beneficiaries. Moreover, it is also an additional drive for families to send children to school. 335. The Government also promotes a Community Based Street Children Prevention and Rehabilitation Program. Through this program 43,672 street children attend formal schooling. Assistance for school materials and cash assistance for uniforms and reference books, etc is provided. Another 2,554 attended vocational training in metal and wood work, auto mechanics, machine shop, computer skills, drawing, music, sewing and embroidery. Trainees were provided with allowances and insurance schemes. Furthermore, 5,856 families of street children got support to start micro-enterprises and petty trade. This enabled them to improve their livelihoods and ensure the educational continuity of their children. Children in contact with the law 336. During the reporting period The GoSE has taken the following steps to improve the respect and protection of Children in Conflict With the Law (CCWL)፦      established a probation service, which provides counseling set separate chambers where their cases are heard organized after care services to CCWL who complete probation and correctional periods Advocacy has been strengthened as one mechanism for improving the existing custody and detention centers where children are kept while awaiting trial, or in cases where parents/guardians cannot be located. financed the renovation of the existing pre-trial detention center in the Central Rregion 337. Pursuant to the provisions of the Transitional Penal Code, the court appoints a government paid advocate, to assist young offenders. This applies in cases where no parent, guardian or other person in loco parentis appears to represent them, or when the young offender is charged with an offence punishable with rigorous imprisonment exceeding ten years. Furthermore, they continue to order admission to a curative, correction or rehabilitation institution, supervised education, reprimand, school or home arrest, for those found guilty of a crime. Hence, penitentiary detention or imprisonment of a young offender is only seen after the above-mentioned measures are applied and fail. This indicates that the system employs detention and institutionalization of child offenders as a last resort. 338. Due to limitation of capacity and resources, the Asmara pre-trial detention center has not expanded to the other five regions. Likewise, there are no rehabilitation centers for CCWL. This condition has forced the authorities to detain adolescent offenders in the same prison Page 86 of 100