Today (May 25) is International Missing Children's Day.

To mark the occasion, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced it would be working on a pilot project in Manitoba with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (the Canadian Centre) to better train border officials for identifying situations involving missing, sexually abused and exploited children.

The specific focus of the pilot project will be for the two agencies to work together to better identify these types of cases at the border.

The CBSA and the Canadian Centre are also partnering to better educate the public on missing children and travelling safely with children abroad.

Since the "Our Missing Children" program originated in 1986, the CBSA has intercepted over 1,800 missing children at Canada's borders.

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