A/HRC/7/8 page 16 date and that a State fund had been created for the protection, assistance and rehabilitation of victims of trafficking. This fund had among its main functions to create shelters for victims of trafficking, including children; to date, two such shelters had been put in place in different areas of the country, where children of trafficked parents were being accommodated. These shelters had the function of providing a secure place of residence with decent living conditions, appropriate food and clothes, medical assistance, psychological counselling, legal aid and court representation, interpretation services (if needed) as well as appropriate programmes of rehabilitation and reintegration. Additionally, several NGOs were running services for children at risk and childcare programmes, including short-term shelters for children, and were allowed to do so if these programmes and facilities met the criteria set forth in the laws and by the fund. 52. In Germany, a project had been put in place by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) as an implementation agency, to assist partner countries in their implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. The aim of this project is to assist the beneficiary countries in strengthening the protection of children and in the rehabilitation of child victims of commercial sexual exploitation. As such, this project has supported various activities and programmes carried out by Governments and NGOs in the following countries: in Cambodia, support has been provided for a training module for social workers on sexual exploitation of children as well as an NGO specialized in activities of childcare and empowerment of children victims; in Albania and Montenegro, support has been provided to private industry to prevent sexual exploitation of minors in the tourism industry. In Latin America, the project has supported training activities for police and border officials in Guatemala, and training courses and materials for the tourism industry in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua. In Germany itself, the project has organized several workshop and training activities for police officials and the tourism industry. 53. In Greece, the main institution for assistance to and welcome for victims of illegal trade and trafficking for purposes of sexual exploitation was the National Centre for Social Solidarity (EKKA), which operated guesthouses for temporary hospitality for victims of trafficking, including children, as well as a telephone line for direct social assistance. 54. In Guatemala, the Social Welfare Secretariat of the Presidency offers assistance and rehabilitation programmes for children at risk or victims of abuse and exploitation, through five public shelters, located in Quetzaltenango, Zacapa, Antigua Guatemala, San Gabriel and Nuestras Raices (Quetzaltenango). Also, three NGOs based in the country operate shelters for children: Movimiento de Jovenes de la Calle, Fundacion El Castillo and Casa Alianza (Guatemala). 55. Honduras indicated that the authority in charge of the well-being of children, the Instituto Hondureño de la Niñez y la Familia (IHNFA) operated, under its subprogramme on protection homes, four different facilities (Casitas Kennedy, 21 de Octubre, Nueva Esperanza and Casitas Adolescentes Mujeres) which, all together, took care of more than 300 minors who had been victims of sexual commercial exploitation or were at risk, divided by age groups and gender. In these facilities, beneficiaries were given educational activities including the regular school curriculum, as well as specialized activities such as medical, psychological, cultural and religious assistance that formed part of the reintegration programme in the four different facilities. These