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Thank you for your consideration, donations, and willingness to help the Kids Helping Missing Kids. Your donations will be used so kids can actually support current and future Search and Recovery missions for missing children. Kids Helping Missing Kids is an IRS 501c3 Nonprofit Texas Corporation Your donations to KHMK are tax deductible. KHMK was created to help kids participate in providing timelier, more enhanced search resources to law enforcement during searches for missing children.
What is Kids Helping Missing Kids doing?
Kids Helping Missing Kids offers the kids an opportunity to lead the way, show the adults of America the importance of funding search efforts and how to have be effective finding missing children. Part of our mission is to raise the funds and be ready to disperse them immediately when a search for missing children is needed. These funds are critical to support active, qualified, volunteer search and rescue (SAR) teams all over the US.
We need to rapidly grow our staff of part-time volunteers, sponsors, bankers and researchers, etc. (See Help Wanted) No matter where you are in the US please contact us if you wish to help.
Why are the Kids Helping Missing Kids?
In the US about 870,000 children have been reported missing a year. That’s one every 40 seconds. What happens next after a child goes missing? Children are reported to law enforcement (LE) as missing. Few LE Agencies are prepared, or equipped with all the skills, personnel, and technology tools necessary to go searching for missing children in a timely manner. They are not budgeted for these emergencies. LE Agencies are in business to apprehend lawbreakers, write tickets and put the more serious offenders in jail until the courts and penal system can deal with them.
What about the Firemen? They are funded to inspect facilities, prevent , and extinguish fires. In today’s world that extends to rescuing people from disaster caused situations including fires, floods, building collapse, hazardous materials, vehicle wrecks including trains & planes. It often includes the ambulance services and emergency medical technicians serving the community. Like LE Agencies they have a very full plate with limited and overly challenged budgets. But they often participate in searches.
So who’s supposed to find our kids and return them safely when they are abducted, lost, or run away from a bad situation, or they make a bad decision and disappear unintentionally? Time is critical for their safe return. Our children are our country’s future and are most vulnerable when they go missing. The danger is compounded the younger they are, the longer they are off medications, the more unfavorable the environmental conditions, and whether foul play is involved.
Remarkably, there is no national organization, public or private that oversees this critical need in the US today. There are a number of volunteer Search and Rescue/Recovery (SAR) teams in communities around the country who train in the skills needed to perform searches, rescues, and recoveries when children (and adults) go missing. Believe it or not, there is no single list anywhere that identifies who these SAR qualified people and teams are, what their skills are, or when and where they are available and might be pressed into action. [This “missing” list issue is being addressed by a different group. More on that in the future.] LE often doesn’t even know these qualified resources are available in their own community or nearby or even which resources would be most effective in the search for the missing child.
How are the Kids Helping Missing Kids?
How can the kids in the US help other kids who have gone missing? They can’t go out on searches! Children do understand the frightening aspect of being separated from their family and safe environments, or being lost or abducted by some creep. How can kids be organized into groups of any kind that could join together and significantly contribute when kids go missing? What would they do?
Kids can collect donated funds all across the US to support the search efforts for missing children. Kids are already organized into social groups. These groups can work together in their own community to help fund the search team efforts. Huh? They are in classes in schools, in churches, in scout troops, little league teams, etc. Why not help them show the adults in the US that crucially needed funds can be collected, managed, and provided to SAR teams across the US when searching for missing kids? The kids can collect donations. They then challenge the adults to pledge to match their efforts. Business leaders in their communities, corporate management, professional athletes making huge salaries, even politicians collecting huge sums during election years could and should participate. Can these adults commit to match the funds collected by these kids to find missing kids? Are there any adults that would be afraid of that challenge?
Who is helping Kids Helping Missing Kids?
Corporate part time volunteers (executives on loan) are welcome to help with the disciplines to run this effort and keep the overhead and expenses low.
Organized SAR teams across the US may want to visit the kids in their community involved in this effort as it proceeds. These SAR teams and individuals could help educate the kids on preventative measures (PSAR). This helps minimize them getting lost or abducted. They can also teach the kids what to do if they’re suddenly in these situations.
When is Kids Helping Missing Kids starting?
Volunteer search teams always need funds. The rollout of this effort started in November 2007. A volunteer organization is set up with an infrastructure and web site. More volunteers are needed. If you would like to have a significant, positive effect on improving the search efforts for missing kids let us know. Click here, I’ll Volunteer
Where is Kids Helping Missing Kids?
This All America effort is HQ’d in Houston, TX and may eventually have branches reaching out all over the US as needed.
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