East Africa: Facebook Can Now Help You Find a Missing Child Through Amber Alerts

14 January 2015

Starting today, there's a new way you can help locate a missing child simply by checking Facebook.

Facebook is teaming up with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to send Amber Alerts to its users in specific areas where a child has gone missing.

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