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New Delhi (Agenzia Fides) - The Salesians of Don Bosco have launched a web site to trace missing children in India. According to SAR NEWS the Don Bosco National Forum for Youth at Risk in association with UNICEF maintains the site www.missingchildsearch.net, closely watched and monitored by child welfare organisations in all major cities in the country.
The web site intends to help find missing children providing information for the judicial authorities, the police as well as the unfortunate families. Visitors can leave messages and photos of the missin children. The site has provided a new platform for all child welfare organisations to come together and work together, the organisers say.
Salesian Fr. John Dharman of Coinbatore, explains: “We have volunteers who have been street children or juvenile delinquents themselves and have been rehabilitated and they can approach runaway children more easily having experienced the same pain and trauma”. Salesians everywhere specialise in helping children in need.
The Don Bosco National Forum for Youth at Risk is a major partner of several child welfare groups and organisations in India which take care of street and working children and children who are victims of war, conflict natural calamities, sexual abuse, trafficking and HIV/AIDS. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 8/3/2007 righe 24 parole 256)
