Molly Bish Foundation
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The Molly Bish Foundation is an organization that was found by John and Magi Bish, the parents of murder victim Molly Bish
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The organization is devoted to helping with child safety through child ID kits that help in locating a missing child. The kits include a current head and shoulder photo of the child along with a set of fingerprints. So far, the foundation have distributed kits of 50,000 people throughout New England
. The foundation's volunteers hold child safety days in local schools, day care centers and sponsored events in different communities.
On the annual Missing Children's Day in the state of Massachusetts
, the foundation began the observance in the Massachusetts State House
to remember children who have been missing and to uphold programs that have helped in missing or abducted children such as the Amber Alert
or the Child Protection Act.
Molly Bish
Molly Anne Bish was a sixteen-year-old girl from Warren, Massachusetts who was abducted and then murdered while working as a lifeguard in rural Massachusetts. Her body was found three years later after the largest search in the history of Massachusetts.In the summer of 2000, Bish worked as a...
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The organization is devoted to helping with child safety through child ID kits that help in locating a missing child. The kits include a current head and shoulder photo of the child along with a set of fingerprints. So far, the foundation have distributed kits of 50,000 people throughout New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
. The foundation's volunteers hold child safety days in local schools, day care centers and sponsored events in different communities.
On the annual Missing Children's Day in the state of Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
, the foundation began the observance in the Massachusetts State House
Massachusetts State House
The Massachusetts State House, also known as the Massachusetts Statehouse or the "New" State House, is the state capitol and house of government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is located in Boston in the neighborhood Beacon Hill...
to remember children who have been missing and to uphold programs that have helped in missing or abducted children such as the Amber Alert
AMBER Alert
An AMBER Alert or a Child Abduction Emergency is a child abduction alert bulletin in several countries throughout the world, issued upon the suspected abduction of a child, since 1996...
or the Child Protection Act.