Childhood helped fund the very popular and academically evaluated online chat resources for at-risk girls, which Tjejzonen developed and continues to run. The project Big Sister Webcam is an evolution driven by the needs and wishes expressed by girls at risk. It combines anonymous chat communication addressing difficult issues with face to face mentorship bonding via webcams. Read more: www. Contact person at Childhood: Susanne Drakborg susanne. In , Childhood, with support from the Swedish Postcode Lottery, launched a new initiative to reduce the opportunities for Swedish offenders to abuse children in foreign countries.
But we also need to focus on the offenders: those who travel to sexually abuse children. As offenders change their travel patterns and methods, our initiatives also need to be updated. An abundance of case studies and dialogues bring the content to life and help to create an understanding of a complex subject. The foundation Change Attitude came up with the idea to let children learn how to navigate risks online through playing a game.
Each player hides a treasure and there are clues to help them find the hidden treasures. The players have to keep the clues safe so that no one else can find the treasure. But there are chat messages from an unknown player which use different tactics to make the children reveal clues. While the chat logs have been used to create the game, the actual game does not contain any scary or inappropriate content. These discussions are led by a teacher or an educator. A prototype of the game has been tested on children with positive results.
Funding from Childhood is being used to complete the game and for research into how the game can be used in the classroom. The goal is that the game can be used in schools, together with teacher-led classroom discussion. According to police estimates, 15, people in Sweden alone downloaded images of child abuse from the Internet in Organizations that document the number of websites that link to material portraying sexual abuse of children report that the number may be more than a hundred thousand per year.
This figure does not include the sites that are hidden on the dark web, meaning sites that cannot be reached using search engines such as Google.
