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Missing! Lodge
complaint with Website THE next time a child goes missing, parents or relatives have one more place to seek help — an Internet site with a countrywide network. A Bangalore-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), Bosco Yuvadaya, has set up a Website, www.missingchildsearch.net, which would display not only details of the missing children but also photographs. "Once the complaint is lodged with the Website or given to the NGOs in each of the cities, they would help in the search for the child," Edward Thomas, director, Bosco Yuvadaya, an NGO working among street children, told IANS. "Every day we get 25 to 30 children who have run away from home or have just gone missing from their homes. Many a time, the local police contact us to find missing children," Thomas said. Last year, Bosco was able to return 2,155 children to their homes in Bangalore alone. "The number of children missing from their homes has been increasing over the last few years," Thomas added. Bosco volunteers operate at bus stands and railway stations in India’s tech capital to trace missing or lost children and provide rehabilitation. "And, don’t forget that the number of missing children is going up not only in Bangalore. It is increasing in other cities in India too. I do not have an exact figure right now," Thomas added. "The idea of setting
up the Website is because most of these children run away to other
cities and, many a At present, the Don Bosco
institutions working among street children or child workers would be the
contact centres for parents or relatives of missing children. "We
would invite other organisations working among children to join this
network," Pallipuram added. Bosco has been working for child
welfare for a long time. In 1997, it conducted a detailed survey on the
use of a typewriting "whitener" and petrol fumes by street
children as an addictive in Bangalore. |
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