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For the young in distress
SANGEETH KURIAN
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They do their best to help the runaways or lost young people.
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Photo: S. Mahinsha
Lost childhood: Important helpline.
Four-year-old Mahalakshmy and one-year-old Karthik, residents of Salem in Tamil Nadu, who were rescued by the activists of Don Bosco Veedu Society and Childline in the city recently are just two among the growing number of children who are being rehabilitated by the volunteers of the help line every month.
The childline number is 1098. Don Bosco, also has a “missing child search” website ( www.missingchildsearch.net) and the homelink ( www.homelink.in) network” to trace missing children and link them back to their families.
Interactive
Parents can log on to the website and register a “missing child” complaint from any part of the country. The photographs of all missing children will be displayed in the photo gallery and home page of the website.
The website is supported by centres that monitor missing complaints and match them with the data available of children residing at various shelter homes across the country. The website is a pilot project of Don Bosco National Forum for Young at Risk (YAR), a platform for organisations and recognised individuals working with different groups of young people who are at risk, including street children, child workers and abused youngsters.
The website helps organisations to interact with one another and to discuss about children who are lost. It also allows children who have lost their parents and organisations working with these children to hunt for their parents.
Home link is a data based tool that has the facility to link all registered organisations at international, national, State, district, city and local levels.
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