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Their emergency telephone numbers are:
These numbers are available at all times. ACTIVITIES Child Focus is active in the prevention of the following matters:
The people at Child Focus provide psychological and legal support to the victims of these events (both the children and their parents). They also follow their cases and sometimes ensure they are treated with due care by the persons in charge. Finally, they help and spread the information about missing children by publishing their pictures and descriptions in Newspaper s, Magazine s, etc. Since 1998, Child Focus has treated 3000 cases a year, and closed 70% of them within the year. FUNDING Child Focus' Funds come from:
HISTORY Child Focus was created on Jean-Denis Lejeune 's initiative in June 1996 , one year after the Abduction of his daughter Julie and her friend Melissa by Marc Dutroux . Lejeune had learned about the existence of the National Center For Missing And Exploited Children in Washington and went to visit it in order to study its structure. During the ''White March'' in Brussels on October 20 1996 , he asked Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene for help in creating a similar organization in Belgium . Its honorary president is her Majesty Queen Paola. On March 31 1998 , Child Focus was fully operational, and in July 1997 , Daniel Cardon De Lichtbuer became the first Chairman of the organization. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |
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