The last
five weeks have seen just under 26000 emails going out the door, around 8000 in
a 24 hour Christmas Appeal asking newspapers to give some media space to missing
people over the holiday season. This is part of our “Find Your Way Home”
Campaign, which includes the launch of 6’ x 4’ display boards of missing people
going up in various locations in the UK in bus shelters or tall lamp post poster
housings. To our knowledge, this has never been done in the UK before, so we
are proud and excited that we have had the opportunity to do this. Cost would
have prohibited this had it not been for the benevolence of '247 Outdoor' for
donating the space rent free and Style Is Substance for doing the graphic design
at no cost.
Tara
London, a talented musician, wrote and produced a song for Forever Searching not
long after we set up, because she was touched by the cause and lack of support
that was around at that time. The song, Find Your Way Home, is the theme tune
to our appeal. We are offering it for free download on our website over the
holiday season. You can read about the campaign and download the song at at our
website
http://www.foreversearching.com
Main Article
FOREVERSEARCHING: 'FIND THEIR WAY HOME'CAMPAIGN
The group are asking for Media
assistance in raising public awareness of the launch of their "Find Your Way
Home" campaign.
This campaign is not an isolated one but rather a long term message that will
reinforce in a variety of ways that missing persons will not be forgotten and
that all missing persons deserve to be found. We, as a society, owe them that
much.
The campaign will see posters featuring the faces of some of UK missing persons,
being unveiled at bus shelters and on lamp posts across the country. The first
batch of posters will be unveiled on Tuesday 23rd December 2008, details of the
times and locations will follow.
This is rather a long term message that Forever
Searching will continue to reinforce in a variety of ways over the next 12
months. There are further plans to bring in phase three of the campaign which
again will include more posters going up at bus shelters in other strategic
points around the UK.
With Christmas Carols playing in the retailers, and Christmas lights decorating
homes and village streets across the world, this special time of the year, for
the majority, is a time for celebration, for gift giving and for family
gatherings, but for families with missing loved ones, it is a time of intense
sadness and overwhelming emptiness.
Forever Searching are asking for public support, calling for all people to stop
for just one moment, during this festive period and send prayers and thoughts to
the families across the world, who at this time of the year, while the world
celebrates, feel nothing but emptiness and pain.
Forever Searching urges anyone who is listed as missing, to please make contact
with their families or friends this Christmas, let someone know you are safe.
Your family need to know.
"Find Your Way Home" was written and produced for Forever Searching by London
based artist Tara London,
http://www.taralondonmusic.co.uk
- If you would like to download the song, please visit
http://www.foreversearching.com- there you will see a
link for download.
For more information on any of our missing cases, Forever Searching or the "Find
Your Way Home" campaign, please contact us at enquiries@foreversearching.com
FundRaising
The last
Friday in November saw us at a local primary school doing a balloon race. A
lot of the children had not come across this before and were intrigued as to how
far balloons can go and they were truly excited by the whole event. It was
definitely one of our more fun activities, despite the rain and wind. In total
we raised £50.40p.
December
7thsaw Mandy outdoors again in the cold and rain,
attending a Christmas Festival in Rutland to sell balloons. She raised £72 in
total.
December
15th saw us outside at the Oakham Christmas market. Despite sub
zero temperatures, there was a festive feel in the air and whilst the credit
crunch is definitely showing and people are cautious about spending and
donating, we did raise £154.27p. More importantly, we did raise a lot of
awareness with many people stopping to ask what we did, looking at missing
people flyers and taking literature away with them.
Our next
fundraising event is planned for around the middle of February, date to be
confirmed, thankfully, an indoor sale!
INTERNATIONAL PLEA FOR THE RETURN OF SEAN GOLDMAN TO HIS FATHER
This case needs International
coverage, the world needs to stand behind this father and support him in his
fight to bring his son home. This case can only be described as a complete
travesty of Justice. This child should be with his biological father.
If you are not familiar with the case, please read the circumstances of Sean's
abduction on http://bringseanhome.org/
There are many ways YOU can help make a difference in this case - if you refer
to the site there is a "How to Help" tab, that will explain in detail how just
one e-mail from you will help get the message across, that we as society think
that this case is inhumane and that Sean needs to come home to his father,
there is no other alternative.
An international petition has been set up which will be presented to officials
from the American and Brazilian Governments, to media outlets in America and
Brazil, calling for them to help put an end to this, and let Sean come
home....
Please add your signature, and circulate to family and friends across the
globe, lets all make a difference this Christmas, lets get behind David
Goldman and add our signatures to this petition.
The friends of David Goldman thank everyone for their compassion, and for
their support.
REWARD TOPPED to $1,000.000 for
Missing Australian Child - Daniel Morcombe
The reward for information on the
disappearance of Daniel Morcombe has been topped to $1 million.
7th December 2008 will mark the 5th anniversary of the disappearance of
Queensland boy Daniel Morcombe.
Daniel vanished at approx 2.10pm on Sunday the 7th December 2003, under the Kiel
Mountain Road overpass on Nambour Connection Road (UBD 66L 15) Woombye,
approximately 2km north of the Big Pineapple on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
He was 13 years old.
At the time of his disappearance Daniel was wearing a Red 'T' Shirt with the
word "Billabong" printed on the front, dark knee length shorts, white socks and
light coloured Globe runners.
Never will Daniel be forgotten - in a move that clearly demonstrates this, a
group of investors, developers and business leaders have raised $750 000. This
on top of the $250,000 that the Queensland Government has put forward.
This reward is only available for six months.
If anyone has any information on what happened to Daniel please contact:
Crime Stoppers – 1 800 333 000
National Missing Persons Coordination Centre + 1800 000634
Forever Searching: urgent@foreversearching.com
REWARD for Missing Australian -
Janine Vaughan
$100,000 reward offered for
information about the disappearance of missing Australian Janine Vaughan.
The offer comes seven years to the day after Janine Vaughan, 31, disappeared.
Janine Vaughan was last at 4am on the 7th December 2001, walking in Keppel
Street, Bathurst, NSW. Near Machattie Park.
Janine was walking about 40 meters ahead of a group of friends, when a bright
red four door sedan, of a similar size and shape to a Mitsubishi Magna or Toyota
Camry, performed a U turn, and pulled up along side Janine. Janine got into this
vehicle, without hesitation, which gives reason to believe that she must have
known the car’s driver.
Janine has not been seen since.
Anyone with any information to the whereabouts of Janine Vaughan is asked to
contact their nearest police station or to phone Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000
A Holiday Wish
We wanted to
send a simple wish to the missing and the families left behind over this holiday
season. We are thinking of you and praying for safe returns. You can view this
message on video on our You Tube Channel,
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VhAkc_wOmNQ&feature=channel_page
