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AMBER Alert Europe foundation
Amber Alert Europe Foundation
AMBER Alert Europe, the European Centre for Missing Children, is a foundation that strives to improve the protection of missing children and to prevent children from going missing by empowering them and raising awareness on the issue of missing children and its root causes. We connect experts from 45 governmental organisations, in particular ministries of the interior and police forces, and non-governmental organisations from 28 countries in our mission towards zero missing children in Europe.
Our activities
Our activities cover training, research, child alerting, and prevention and awareness-raising, as well as launching initiatives aimed at impacting policies and legislation in the area of children’s rights. Our joint efforts with police experts in the field of missing children even paved the way for a European police expert network in this area.
All of our activities are implemented in line with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child and with respect for the privacy of children and data protection laws.
Our beginnings
As a response to missing children cases exceeding geographical borders, the AMBER Alert Europe Foundation was founded in 2013 to contribute to better cross-border coordination and cooperation in the search for missing children.
Since then, our network has expanded and now encompasses different experts from a variety of backgrounds who make their know-how and expertise available to improve existing practices and procedures for a fast and safe recovery of missing children and safeguarding of children against going missing or an abduction.
Supervisory Board
Henk Jansen
Maurice Lenferink
Board of Directors
Petra Binkova
Carlo Schippers
Frank Hoen
Advisory Board
Charlie Hedges
Christian Mader
Alan Rhees-Cooper
Karsten Bettels
Caroline Humer
Victor Reuter
Patrícia Cipriano
With your help
towards #ZeroMissingKids
Contributions to the AMBER Alert Europe foundation make a significant difference in the search for and protection of missing children. With your help, we can continue our ongoing efforts towards #ZeroMissingKids.
Participating organisations
Annual and Financial Reports
The Netherlands Fundraising Regulator
The Netherlands Fundraising Regulator (CBF) is an independent foundation which has been monitoring fundraising by charities since 1925. The CBF’s task is to promote trustworthy fundraising and expenditure by reviewing fundraising organisations and giving information and advice to government institutions and the public.
Public Benefit Organisation
The AMBER Alert Europe foundation is a ‘Public Benefit Organisation’ (Dutch: Algemeen Nut Beogende Instelling, ANBI). We were awarded this status because at least 90 percent of our efforts are focused on the general good.