Locate and return all missing people back to families

Every year, millions of people around the world disappear without a trace. A person can go missing as a result of an accident, crime, illness, death in a place where they cannot be found (for example, at sea), or for many other reasons, including voluntary disappearance. A child can go missing for several reasons, such as child trafficking for sexual exploitation, commercial exploitation and murder for organs. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends.

There is not a single governmental, non-governmental or any other international organization, including the UN, the Red Cross, which has accurate data on how many people are missing each year. Some websites and mainly the police give us only a rough estimate: in the US about 800,000 people go missing every year; in the UK, 275,000; Russia - 120,000; Canada - 80,000; Australia - 38,000. As estimated 250,000 kids go missing each year in Europe, according to the European Union. Many are runaways that are later found, though there are also cases involving small children who are abducted and never found.

This, however, is only a snapshot of the problem. In many countries, statistics on missing people are not even available; and, unfortunately, even available statistic figures may be totally inaccurate due to different reasons such as: under-reporting/under-recognition; inflation; incorrect database entry of case information; and deletion of records once a case is closed. Many countries do not have even statistics for  their own missing people. According to our observations 10, 000 000 people got missing each year worldwide. More than 60% of them never come back home.