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What is MasoniCh.I.P. Ontario ?
No parent wants to believe that the unimaginable could happen to them, though nearly 55 children are reported missing to Police in Ontario every day (164 every day in Canada). According to Canada’s “Our Missing Children” network and “Ontario Child Find”, a current good quality photo is the single most effective tool in locating a missing child. Parents are encouraged to be prepared by assembling their child’s photos and vital information ahead of time. Enter MasoniCh.I.P. Ontario (Child Identification Program) – deemed “one of the most comprehensive Child Recovery and Identification Programs in the nation” by The National Center for Exploited and Missing Children, brought exclusively to Ontario families by dedicated Masons FREE of charge.
Sponsored by the Grand Lodge A. F. & A. M. of Canada in the Province of Ontario, the MasoniCh.I.P Program consists of FIVE Major Components: digital photographs, digital video, digital fingerprints, vital child information, and a dental bite impression or Intra Oral Swab for DNA. The CD used to store: child information, video, photographs, and fingerprints; helps the rapid distribution of vital information to Police, and is compatible with Amber Alert. The dental impression provides a virtual diagram of the child’s biting surface; which, like fingerprints, are unique to each individual. The bite impression plate also supplies saliva to provide a DNA sample. Combined; this FIVE part process provides a dramatic, time-sensitive recovery tool for authorities.
Parents are urged to gather pertinent information about their child prior to the event such as: an emergency contact name, address and phone numbers, distinguishing marks and scars, allergies, medications, and parents work, cell, and other phone numbers, as well as the child’s height and weight. Security and privacy are of utmost importance. All information and specimens are collected on site, processed, and provided to the parent or guardian in an envelope - along with the sentiment of all the Masonic volunteers - “We hope you never need to use it”. After each child is processed, the data is deleted and erased from the computer using state-of-the-art software. The only item retained by MasoniCh.I.P Ontario is the signed permission slip.
The Masonic brethren of Ontario, and their volunteers, are pleased to offer this program, completely FREE, to our communities. Ontario Masons will be offering MasoniCh.I.P. Clinics to Ontario communities on a continuing basis.
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