Coffee cups may assist in finding missing Aussies

Coffee Cups featuring eight people who have been missing long-term in Australia. Source: Supplied

The humble paper coffee cup is part of a campaign to raise awareness of the thousands of people who remain missing long-term in Australia. Families traumatized by the disappearance of loved ones hope it will yield new leads.

This year the theme for National missing Persons week (4-10 August, 2019) is ‘Individuals Not Statistics’.

In Australia, while most people reported missing are found quickly, some 3,000 remain missing long-term.

This campaign is a modern take on a successful 1980s practises of printing missing persons' information on milk cartons in the United States.

Listen to SBS Gujarati every Wednesday and Friday at 4 pm.

Dr Jyoti Hathi shares her family's story on missing children's day