Missing children are all too rarely found because their reporting is not / or poorly distributed ... too few people in the world know their faces, so they can not be recognized, reported, and finally found located. "

Preliminary remark:

NO, Internet is not just a heap of pornographic or racist websites! It is the fastest and most wonderful means of communication, that is used by thousands of people.

Are you hesitant to publish a photograph of your missing child?

• If your child has been abducted or is a runaway, it is in his/her interest that he/she is rapidly found, because the true dangers of the street will be more real than the hypothetical dangers that might result from publishing his/her photograph.

• And there are certainly more honest people surfing on the Internet than dishonest ones.

• Don’t hesitate: if your child disappears in spite of warnings and preventing actions, call on an organization like FREDI for Switzerland (see the links of others abroad, however FREDI can forward the notification on your behalf), straight after contacting the police and filing a missing alert.

A child's disappearing bowls everyone over. But when it concerns your own child it is devastating!
Because the alarm was not given early enough, because the policeman who saw or heard you did not grasp the urgency of the situation, your child may be found, but later … much later and … dead.
This can happen in countries or remote places in the world where the police force may not be cooperative, or may lack the necessary experience, the know-how, or simply the right tools, to rapidly post the missing alert on the internet.
In Switzerland, it could happen, as it did in 2004 (!), that a missing notification issued in a specific canton, is not communicated to the other 25 cantons (Switzerland is a federal country and each of its 26 cantons is fully autonomous in many fields).

The FIRST FEW HOURS are of crucial importance. All the more as the European borders are vanishing one after the other.

Immediate posting of a missing notification on specialized websites such as FREDI Foundation, in places where there’s a high concentration of people like airports, train stations and at border crossings, would ensure a high probability of success to find your child alive.
Our Foundation’s website  hosts not only announcements about missing children (under 18) that are directly submitted to us, but also those proceeding from our international partners and accessible via the links found on our page.
Posting a missing child’s photograph and particulars on the net enables the FREDI foundation to reach a huge public whose help could be determining, or to make it possible for an abducted child to reconnect with his/her family.

• ·    By making posters from the photograph to be displayed in as many places as possible
• ·    By informing the FREDI Foundation, thus giving the police station working on the missing child’s case a central point of contact.

FREDI’s website does not, in any case, replace that of the police  FREDI's website is therefore an additional help for the police, although its primary target is the public at large.