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Ricky Martin launches the campaign "Surf Protected"
8/9/2007
Yesterday Puerto Rico became the site for the world launching of the website www.navegaprotegidoeninternet.org created by the Ricky Martin Foundation and Microsoft company, co-hosted by the Government of Puerto Rico and the Municipality of Caguas, in an effort to provide children with a safe and supervised source of information to avoid the threaten of sexual predators that lurk the Internet.
The website was inaugurated in a ceremony attended by singer Ricky Martin; Fernando Bonilla, Secretary of State; William Miranda Marín, mayor of Caguas; Ambrose Ramsahai, general manager of Microsoft Puerto Rico and Angel Saltos, executive director of Ricky Martin Foundation.
At the launching, which took place in the "Centro de Innovación Tecnológica" in Caguas, Ricky Martin said that "today I feel more motivated because before then I felt sick and tired of taking about the problem. Today I want to offer solutions. Of this effort that the Government and Microsoft are a part of. And through this effort many children will learn about good things and bad things of the Internet."
Martin said that he decided to join forces with several activists and philanthropists after learning about a girl who disappeared from her home in the United States and was found in an eastern European country, after getting in touch with a person over the internet who turned out to be a sexual predator, who seduced her and took her away, submitting her to prostitution.
On the other hand, Bonilla announced that the Government will include in their official pages a link to the website, as well as the Department of Education, which chose seven schools to begin a pilot plan that will include the systems and libraries of the schools. Likewise, service agencies such as the Department of Family, the Police and the Office of Management and Budget will join this effort.
On the other hand, Miranda Marín emphasized that thanks to the "Centros de Innovación Tecnológica," the information will reach nearly half a million children and adults.
