Dear webmaster220.blogspot.com,
Welcome to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). I'm personally grateful to you for taking action to help find and protect missing and exploited children.
NCMEC's mission is personal to my family because in 1981 my own son, Adam Walsh, was kidnapped and murdered. During our two week search for Adam, my wife and I would infuriatingly hear the words: "We're sorry, but there's not much else we can do" over and over again.
This was before NCMEC. When there wasn't a hotline to call when he went missing. There wasn't a search protocol in place inside the Sears where he disappeared to help find him. There wasn't an alert system to notify law enforcement across state lines. And there were no missing child posters to solicit the public's help. We were desperate for help that they couldn't give because there really was "not much else" they could do.
We hated those words and we vowed that no parent of a missing child in America would ever have to hear them again.
That's why in 1984 my wife Revé and I founded the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and announced its creation with President Ronald Reagan and others, to help find missing kids, reduce child sexual abuse material, and prevent child exploitation from ever happening.
Now, NCMEC runs the 1-800-THE-LOST 24-hour hotline to receive calls and tips. We have the Code Adam protocol in place at many stores so employees know what to do if a child disappears. We are a secondary distributor of the AMBER Alert notification system which is activated in serious child abduction cases. And our missing children's posters reach millions of people to solicit help in the recovery of missing kids.
I urge you to learn more about how NCMEC has been helping find missing children and how they have been working to keep all kids safer since 1984 by watching this video:
NCMEC does a lot because there's a lot to be done. According to the FBI, in 2019 alone, there were 424,066 kids reported missing.
By joining NCMEC, you've now committed to the mission that drives me, my wife Revé, our son Callahan who's heavily involved in the mission, and a staff committed to making sure that every child and family is spared from the trauma my own family endured.
In future emails from NCMEC, you will receive updates about missing children's cases and about how you can support NCMEC's mission to help find missing children, reduce explicit material online, and prevent child exploitation. To ensure that all future emails from NCMEC reach your inbox, just drag our email into your primary inbox and add us to your contacts.
If you want to start helping find missing kids now, follow us on social media and share missing kids photos, videos, and articles. You will find links to our social media pages and missing children's posters at the bottom of all our emails.
Thank you, and I pray that you and your family are always safe and well.
Sincerely,
John Walsh
Co-founder, The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
P.S. If you'd like to make a gift to support NCMEC today, please click here to help us find missing children and to prevent future exploitation and abduction of kids.
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