It would be totally unrealistic to think or believe that any one of us could single handedly go out there and trace a missing child and bring them home. However, there are a number of other ways we can get involved, in raising awareness to a missing child.
Offer your skills - Are you in Media? You could print articles on various cases and issues pertaining to the bigger issue of the phenomenon of missing people. Let`s face it, Media are the ones with the biggest power to raise awareness. Are you a Journalist or a Writer? Offer to write articles on various cases or articles about the bigger issue. Are you a lawyer? Families need advice. Especially where a child has been taken across borders. Are you a counsellor? Families need professional advice on how to cope with life in the aftermath of their loved one going missing.
Offer the services of your business - Are you in the trucking business? You could help distribute posters of the missing, putting them up on your route. Are you a printer? You could help with printing of posters of the missing. You could help with leaflets and pamphlets raising awareness of the missing. Web-design? Families need to set up a web-site for their loved one. Are you a musician? Dedicate a concert to the missing, using the concert to raise awareness to the missing.
Put up posters of the missing - Print off posters and put them up in public areas such as shop windows, car windows, supermarket notice boards, hospital notice boards, anywhere and everywhere. This is the key to any missing persons case, they need to be seen.
Fund Raise - Help raise funds for printing of posters, for postage costs, for stationary costs. Funding is always an issue for groups such as ours, fund raising is vital for success, lack of funding restricts us in what we need to do to get the faces out there. You could hold jumble sales, car boot sales, do raffles, hold church events and donate the proceeds.
Volunteer - Additionally, we need volunteers to help us run our networking sites like Myspace and Bebo. Volunteering with Forever Searching is quite simple, send an e-mail to register@foreversearching.com. All we ask is that the person is over 16 years of age and that they are computer literate.