358   Then, the anti-child trafficking project: to secure child labourers and value their skills: Indeed, as part of the fight against child trafficking in Benin, one first project was funded by the Beninese government and the European Commission in 2002 and 2005. It allowed undertaking awareness campaigns and providing support to the Minors' Protection Brigade and to reception and reintegration facilities. The 2nd anti-child trafficking project was launched in 2007 and ensures the continuity of the 1st project. Its main intervention components are as follows: strengthening of the institutional system combating child trafficking and exploitation, the reduction of the structural causes of child trafficking and exploitation, the securitization of the living conditions of child labourers and the valuation of their professional skills in the markets of Dantokpa in Cotonou, of Arzéké in Parakou and in the market of Malanville. 359 Swisscontact undertook to implement the 3rd component of this project which consists in developing educational tools for the implementation of a vocational training in four (4) businesses (bakery, soap works, cheap restaurant management : outreach catering and business) to build the capacity of children, create for them opportunities for a better future and promote their installation in the labour market.  The anti-child trafficking national plan (2008 to 2012) which aimed at making an inventory and evaluation of the situation related to child trafficking; and then determine and strengthen the legal and organizational institutional frameworks meant to ensure the prevention, readaptation and reintegration of children victims of trafficking. e. Protection against negative social and cultural practices : 360 The negative social and cultural practices identified in Benin are: female genital mutilations, widowhood rites, early and / or forced marriage, the begging of talibés, ritual infanticide, children in voodoo initiation convents. Those practices are henceforth punished by the criminal code and specific provisions. 361 In December 2013, the Childpro database revealed in the GER that 15 children including 12 girls came very close to being victims of infanticideiv. 362 According to the MICS 2014, the percentage of girls aged between 0 and 14 who were victims of any form of FGM as reported by mothers of 15-49 years is 21.1. 363 The general population and housing census in 2002 informed about this issue. 364 This census removed the veil on the persistence of early and / or forced marriage practices, despite the various awareness actions. 365 Thus, according to the census of 2002, the total early marriage rate stands at 37% including 25% in urban areas against 45% in rural areas: 1.2% of children aged between 10 and 14 are married (1.8% of girls and 0.6% of boys) and 10% of girls aged between 15 and 17 are married. 366 In terms of fight against negative social and cultural practices several programs are developed by state services (DFEA, OFFE) and CSOs with the support of technical and financial partners.