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Child Helpline International (CHI) is a global network of 178 child helplines in 143 countries (as of January 2014).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CHI - Child Helpline International )〕 Child helpline is a telecommunication and outreach service on behalf of children and young people.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CHI - Child Helpline International )〕 == History == In 1989, CHI founderJeroo Billimoria worked closely with street children in India as a social worker. She gave the children her telephone number and told them to call if they needed any help, after which her phone did not stop ringing. That is when Jeroo realised that these children really needed someone to speak to, someone to assist them. The idea of a toll-free number emerged. She set up Childline India - India's first and only child helpline. Childline's approach was to have volunteers who answered the phone and who would go directly to the child in need. The volunteers kept a log of the calls. This log would then become very important data for the creation of child protection policies, thus placing the helplines at the centre of child protection policy. After its success in India, Jeroo explored the idea of taking Childline India's concept globally with hopes to create a global network which provided technical assistance to countries who could start or expand their own helplines. This led to international consultation meeting, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and attended by representatives from 49 child helplines from around the globe, including members of European helplines, who had also attempted to form a European collaboration. In this meeting, Child Helpline International was launched.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CHI - Child Helpline International )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Child Helpline International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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