The Masonic Chip Program
The Chip Program is known as the (MYCHIP) which is (Massachusetts Youth Child Identification Program) www.mychip.org to get the details of this fine Masonic Program to Protect Our Children. The Chip Program begin it’s inception in 1988, and it continues today to assist families by providing tools to help law enforcement authorities to identify a lost or missing child.If you would like a local Masonic lodge to organize a MYCHIP event in your community, please call 617.426.6040 x4214, or email your request to mychip@massfreemasonry.org. MYCHIP can be held at schools, public events, or for your private group – anywhere a large group of children will be present.
The purpose of this program is designed to Protect Our Children and is done by the Masons of Massachusetts, partnering with and in cooperation with the Massachusetts Crime Prevention Officers Association and The Massachusetts Dental Society.
None of the information is copied and all the identifying materials are given to the child's family.
The Free Program Materials are:
VIDEOTAPE: A brief videotaped interview that can be quickly distributed to the media in order to reach a huge audience.
FINGERPRINTING: Fingerprinting is a well-known means of identification. Resourceful parents keep fingerprints available should the need arise.
TOOTHPRINTS: A tooth print bite impression is quick and easy. Teeth, like fingerprints are unique. A dental imprint gives both accurate and important information for identification purposes.
CHEEK SWAB: A Q-tip is gently rubbed on the inside of a child’s cheek to gather DNA material.
To Have a (MYCHIP) Event in your Community see your local Masonic Lodge.
Pull Tab Collection Program
The Pull Tab Collection Program is a great Masonic Program Just another way that Massachusetts Masons and Shriners reach out to our local community. The money’s that is gained from the collecting of the tabs goes to the Aleppo Shriners Children’s Transportation Fund for Shriners Hospital ’s.The Children Transportation Fund is to provide transportation to Shriners Hospitals for needy children and their parents, this is done free of charge. The fund pays for transportation to Shriners Hospital by bus, train and air. The fund can provide for the MedFlight transportation when a childs life hangs in balance. The parent or family never sees a bill for one of these flights which can cost thousands of dollars.
How can one help is easy save the aluminum can pull – tabs and bring them to the shrine center in Wilmington or bring them to your local Masonic Blue Lodge local to your area. All redeemed proceeds will go to the Transportation Fund.
One can encourage community awareness of the tab program by getting other groups involed by orgazationing local groups, schools, church, scouts, family members and our nabroughs to help collect tabs for the fund.
For more information:
Aleppo Shrine Center 99 Fordham Road , Wilmington MA 01887
978-657-4202 or 781-665-6466 www.alepposhriners.com
Masonic Children's Learning Centers
The Masonic Children's Learning Centers is a program for helping children overcome the obstacles of dyslexia it was founded in 1994 and is designed to provide one on one tutoring to Children with dyslexia. This is just one of many of the Masonic charities that is supported though the benevolence of the Masons.The Scottish Rite Masons founded the centers in the 15 state jurisdictions since its founding of the centers in 1994. The students are accepted into the learning centers at no cost to the parents or any schools from which they are referred. Applicants are not judge on bases of economic status, race, religion, or Masonic affiliation.
In the years that the Children's Learning Centers have been actively engaged in helping children overcome the obstacles of dyslexia, thousands of dyslexic children have received free one-on-one multisensory reading and written language tutoring, and hundreds of school teachers and other individuals interested in becoming certified tutors have received training at no cost. Additionally, the Children's Learning Centers continue to support clinical research programs that focus on dyslexia.
For more information please visit: http://www.childrenslearningcenters.org/
Or Call (781) 465-3381
