In the UK alone, over 100,00 children go missing each year: one child every 5 minutes.
Since March 2002, Tesco have been working in partnership with PACT and the NPIA Missing Person Bureau. PACT was founded in 2000 by Lady Meyer and is an international, non-profit organisation registered in the UK and the USA. PACT's initial mission was to fight parental child abduction across frontiers, but has now broadened its mission to include the location and retrieval of all children, who go missing. Tesco have worked with PACT by displaying posters of missing children in stores throughout the UK. Since the launch of this campaign over 100 children have been found.
To find out more visit http://www.pact-online.org and http://www.missingkids.co.uk
Police are increasingly concerned for the whereabouts of 5 year Old Madeleine McCann who went missing Thursday night (3.5.2007) in the seaside village of Praia da Luz in south-west Portugal. Madeleine's parents are distraught. Madeleine was asleep in the room, while her parents dined nearby. On checking on her at approximately 22:00, they discovered she was gone. Local police believe Madeleine has been abducted. Madeleine is described as a happy go lucky child with long blonde/sandy hair and green/hazel eyes. Her right eye is distinctive as the pupil runs into the blue-green iris. Anybody with information should Call Leicestershire Police on 0116 222 2222 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or 0044 1883 731 336. Portuguese Police on 0035 1 282 405 400.
