Why You Should Note Numbers of Emergency Call Centres Worldwide

A ten year old boy in Lincoln, Nebraska, kept his father alive for days with food and water but did not know how to call 911 for help. (I read about this March 5th 2013) After four days the boy's school checked on the fact that he was absent. Adding on a two day weekend, the child or parent or both could have been left without help for six days.
I've read of dogs, monkeys and tiny tots who were able to summon help. If the child did not know how to call for help, schoolchildren should be told at school what to do.
Maybe a film should be shown about the important work done to save lives.
Instead of films and videos showing fighting we should be showing heroes and role models who are life saving.
Basic first aid.
But it should be impressed on children that if any child or adult cries wolf when there's no wolf they will be punished by their parents paying a fine and when they need help they won't get it.
In countries such as France and Singapore blocks of flats have a concierge on the ground floor who watches coming and going. In China some hotels have a watch on every floor.
This is mainly to stop crime and other activities which the authorities deem  undesirable. Japanese cities I believe have a police point in every street.
Neighbourhoods, worldwide, should arrange for a house in every street to act as a help point. Choose a reliable citizen. If the householders and callers in that neighbourhood don't speak the language or can't be trusted simply install a callbox and signs for emergency services.
Failing all else, like in London's underground railway stations, have a direct Help line to a person in a call centre. The call centre automatically knows the location you call from, by GPS or some kind of electrical signal. The switchboard operator records the call and puts you through to the correct emergency service. Any child or adult can phone the emergency point or go there and be redirected to the right emergency service or have a phone call made on their behalf.
Anybody who makes prank calls is taken to mortuaries and shown films of people who died because emergency services did not arrive in time and sent to write and apologise in person to those running emergency services. And to act out a scene where they are in trouble but the emergency services are too busy to send help. Then to give a talk to their school explaining why they made the prank call and how they now regret it and realise why it was wrong because when the schoolchildren need help they want it to be available.
In the UK the emergency number is 999. You can find emergency numbers in phone books.
Put the local emergency number on the phone, especially if you move to a foreign country and are in a hotel, rental, property, or own a property rented out to people who are foreign visitors or don't speak English.
Phones be sold with the international emergency numbers on a card - in LARGE PRINT! A fixed phone such as a phone booth should clearly state it's location so when an operator or even your Mum asks, where are you, you can tell them.