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Lithuanian Childline volunteers have the opportunity to provide emotional support online, while volunteering remotely.

Childline volunteers have the opportunity to provide emotional support online, while volunteering remotely. Volunteers can connect online while living in different areas of Lithuania and abroad. Volunteers find this way of volunteering very convenient as they do not need to plan their arrival at the office and can log in from any quiet place where they will not be disturbed. This allows volunteers to conveniently dedicate more time to volunteering, to plan their schedule flexibly, and to change colleagues quickly in extra situations.

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Childline plays a crucial role in providing emotional support to children, with volunteers answering hundreds of calls and online inquiries daily. These volunteers dedicate nearly 50 hours a day talking to children, ensuring they never hear a busy signal, but instead, "Childline, I'm listening..."

Israeli Safer Internet Day Committee

Basic online safety tips

On this page, you can download a PDF with basic tips in 10 languages: English, French, Arabic, Polish, Ukrainian, Moroccan, German, Turkish, Spanish, and Frisian, created by Veiliginternetten.nl

Five basic tips for your online safety:

Ensure secure passwords for all your devices and accounts.
Always perform software updates on your smart devices immediately.
Use an antivirus scanner.
Regularly make backups.
Check links first, before you click them.

ScamCheck browser extension

Is a website trustworthy, or are you dealing with a phishing site? Sometimes it's hard to tell. That's why there is now the ScamCheck extension. This extension warns you if a website is likely unsafe. You can easily download the extension. After that, you will receive a notification on your screen if you land on a fake website.

You can download the extension from the Chrome Web Store:

Centre for Missing and Exploited Children Croatia - Croatian Safer Internet Centre

Start of "Child online safety: what educators need to know" BIK MOOC

Sextoooh

Sextoooh is a pedagogical tool focusing on the issue of sexting and gender stereotypes. These stereotypes are about how girls and boys (and everyone else) are differently judged when they are involved in sexting situations and how they deal with it.

Sextoooh encourages young people to become aware of the dynamics they are involved in during sexting situations, but also of the influence of their choices on them. However, there is more to it than that! Sextoooh encourages and promotes debate, raises awareness of each other's opinions, and highlights gender stereotypes.

What do we do after AI takes over?

Disclaimer: The header image and this article were created with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). The author prompted the discussion with an AI tool and wrote the responses in a dialogue style in this article.