CLAIM: New media is very important to assist the fight against child abuse. With the use of new media people can acquire help world-wide. Also it’s a fast and easy way for the organizations to inform people about what they do and how they can help.
With the use of the internet people and smart phone apps people all over the world can use new media tools to help prevent child abuse.
The Childhelp foundation: prevention and treatment of child abuse, uses new media resources to encourage and provide an easier access for people to participate. Their website quotes in the participation section:
"Participate
- Ask Congress to Stop Child Abuse Deaths by signing the Internet petition from the National Child Abuse Coalition, which urges members of Congress to hold hearings, provide emergency funds and adopt a national strategy to fight child abuse in America. This will be delivered to Congress the first week of April.
- Write a letter to members of Congress to bring additional awareness to the issue. Using the promo code "Childhelp1959," the first 500 people can send two free letters through a new tool called PurpleLetter.org. Feel free to send as many as you want to elected officials and media outlets and make sure you post your letter in the PurpleLetter online gallery and share it via Facebook and Twitter so we can make the most impact possible. "
Many websites also have links that can be linked to your twitter to help spread their word about child abuse. Because millions of people have twitter and facebook accounts there are ways that you can link your twitter accounts that will tweet messages that will be posted on all of your followers time lines. Or in the case of Facebook it would be posted as a facebook status.
