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ChildLine:
There are so many worthy children’s charities all trying to provide valuable support for their causes. However, ChildLine is unique as they provide a free 24-hour helpline for children and young people in the UK and are often a child’s first point of contact if they are in danger or in distress.
In 1986, a BBC One consumer programme presented by Esther Rantzen call that’s Life! appealed to viewers to find out more about child abuse. After the programme, the BBC opened a confidential helpline and thousands of young people spoke of details of terrible cruelty and abuse jamming the lines.
It was clear the the telephone was the way that children could directly ask for help, when no other child protection agency knew of their suffering. So ChildLine was launched as an independent chrigy, with its distinctive telephone number and logo. Since then it has grown t try and meet the enormous demand from children and has become the inspiration and model for similar helplines around the world.
ChildLine counsell over 120,000 children and young people a year about a wide range of problems. Many of these children were in great distress: others were in danger of being hurt or hurting themselves.
But as well as listening to children, ChildLine gives them a voice: taking what they tell ChildLine about their lives and relaying it to policy makers, parents and people who work with children, so that they can make children’s lives better.
ChildLines work costs over £11 million a year. Almost all of this money comes from voluntary donations from companies, organisations and individuals. Without this help their work with children would not be possible.
For more information about ChildLine or to make a donation please visit www.childline.org.uk
Marine Connection:
Every year in Japan the annual drive hunt (fishery) season, which runs from 1st October o 30 March, sees the slaughter of over 20,000 dolphins, porpoises and small whales. Images of this slaughter are too horrific to show but you may have seen the dolphins plight highlighted on worldwide TV and in newspapers recently.
During this time, Japanese fishermen are responsible for the killing of the largest number of dolphins anywhere in the world. These hunts are sustained by marine parks such as Ocean World Adventure Park in the Dominican Republic, which pay large amounts of money for live dolphins to re-stock their facilities.
Please help their cause by signing their online petition or to donate online at www.marineconnection.org
