Child ID’s
November 18th, 2009 by Mike VasilindaFSU Head Coach Bobby Bowden and Governor Charlie Crist today accepted a check from Wal-Mart for $186 thousand dollars.
The money will pay for more than 2 hundred thousand ID kits though the National Child Identification Program. The kits will be given free of charge to all Florida kindergarten and first grade students next school year.� Director Kenny Hansmire and Bobby Bowden say the need is great.
�We found out that there�s over 800,000 children reported missing every year,” Hashmire said. “That�s one every 40 seconds. 350,000 are parent abductions, 56,000 are stranger abductions, and we have over 450, 000 runaways across America.�
�They are in the biggest danger,” Bowden said. “Anybody that reads the paper or watches television, have you ever seen there been more of a need for this, than right now? I mean, the timing is perfect, and I hope our whole nation gets behind it. I�ve got 21 grandchildren. My other ones are all old and gone, but I want to be sure that they participate in this.�
The kits contain an inkless fingerprint card and a swab for parents to take a DNA sample.
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