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from Bamenda. In addition to the psychosocial assistance given, each of the
children was trained in a trade, while the parents were sought and taken care of
by the projects, in view of the establishment of a private charity institution. The
children were then rehabilitated. Sixty rural communicators were trained in child
slavery and trafficking modules. The United States embassy and parent and
children cooperatives and clubs supported the training programme. The
programme is aimed at sustaining the gains made and curbing the development
of child trafficking in the areas concerned;
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The joint MINAS/Belgian Red Cross project carried out in 2003 for the social
reintegration of street children in Yaounde, ended in 2005. The project helped
to reach nearly 15,000 children through various activities, and reintegrate 480 of
them;
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Under the multilateral debt reduction, project implemented to combat the issue
of street children in 2008. One of the intermediate objectives of this project is
the processing and prevention of sexual exploitation and other forms of violation
of the rights of children and adolescents in the Centre and coastal regions,
which led to the identification of 465 of these children, 112 of whom have been
reunited with their families;
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Cameroon-Japan cooperation to increase basic schools;
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Chantal BIYA/EDICEF cooperation Foundation, which built and equipped
schools and restored five primary schools back to the State;
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Involvement of the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, in
identifying and caring for orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV
and AIDS (orphans and vulnerable children). This activity was undertaken
under the authority of the Ministry of Social Affairs, together with the national
AIDS control committee. The committee‟s programme aims to ensure access by
300,000 orphans and vulnerable children to basic social services by 2010;
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France/UNICEF/Cameroon cooperation, under the “Bi-Multi” project which aims
to provide care for orphans and vulnerable children;
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MINAS/Belgian technical cooperation (PADESS-BAKA) for management of
pygmies, including child pygmies in Djoum, Mintom and Oveng in the South
Region, which, on completion, had contributed to improving
access to
citizenship procedures for BAKA children (467 children received birth
certificates) and child morbidity control through the vaccination of 645 pregnant
women;