ICMEC/YouTube Missing Children Channel
Nearly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States alone1.
Thankfully the vast majority of these children are recovered quickly.
However, worldwide the problem is even larger.
That’s why the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC),
in partnership with Google’s YouTube and The Find Madeleine Campaign,
launched a YouTube missing children’s channel.
The Internet channel— www.youtube.com/DontYouForgetAboutMe—
shows videos of missing children from around the world. It also features safety and
educational materials in several languages and messages from dignitaries and soccer star David Beckham.
Anyone with information about a missing child featured on the website should contact the appropriate law enforcement agency.
1[Andrea J. Sedlak, David Finkelhor, Heather Hammer, and Dana J. Schultz. U.S. Department of Justice.
"National Estimates of Missing Children: An Overview" in National Incidence Studies of Missing,
Abducted, Runaway, and Thrownaway Children. Washington, DC: Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, October 2002, page 5.]