Amber Alert
On Friday, International Missing Children’s Day, Alex Meshivilli’s mother, Natala Ichuadze launched the Amber Alert system here in Greece. The system is designed to put the whole country on alert within 30 minutes of a child being reported missing by immediate briefing of police, the media and the public.
A total of 40 state and private organizations, including local media firms, are to cooperate in implementing the system which makes use of emergency media bulletins, the mass distribution of SMS messages and electronic signs on highways and railways
Amber Alert is named after Amber Hagerman, a nine year old girl, who was kidnapped and murdered in 1996 in Texas.
This early warning system is too late for Alex. He has been missing for over a year but my deepest respect to Natala who has been courageous and caring enough to launch this initiative that might help prevent another parent having to go through what she has suffered. Thank you.
Please help keep Alex in the spotlight here and around the world by posting to your blogs. Does anyone have the time and ability to translate the Find Alex blog into English? If you do, please drop an email to his parents offering your help. Read this from their blog:
Our 11-year-old son disappeared without trace from the centre of Veria on 3rd February 2006 at 7.00p.m. No one saw anything unusual that night. Our search for him was carried out on an international scale. On 2nd June 2006, without letting us know beforehand, the police started excavating beside the Town Hall of Veria. Frantically,we asked the police what was going on and they replied that they had been lookihg into the case and had discovered a gang of 5 juveniles who had connfessed to killing our son.three subsequently retract their confession, saying they were playing a hoax on the police.Two continue to confess to murder and also implicate three adults who helped them. Despite all this,the police are incapable of solving the case,while at the same time they obstinately refuse to search for the body of our son…
Read the full article about Amber Alert from Kathimerini here.
From currybet.net.
Remember Alex is totally unlike Madeleine Mcann. There is no national campaign here in Greece to find Alex. No fund to support his anguished mother. No chain email. No video clips shown before the Greek Cup Final appealing for fresh information.
But then Alex isn’t a photogenic three year old girl.
Alex is a “not we”. Georgian. Not Greek. One of the 8.1% of the population of Greece that is an immigrant.
The fact that his fate remains unknown doesn’t feature in the news in Greece anymore.
Please help this to change.
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Reader Comments
DD, this is one of the reasons why I love you and your blog. You write things that matter in the world and it shows how HUGE YOU ARE!
I know alot of people don’t like memes. But I do them for one reason. It helps readers understand why we do what we do…what our goal and mission is…and for those of us with a global goal…its gives exposure to new readers.
For that reason, I tagged you in another meme on my blog, Murphy’s Law. If you don’t want to do it, no biggy. I like the questions that I could chose and I tagged people that I thought needed exposure to the world at large.
What I’m proud of is that I don’t live in the “narrow perspective” of life….that’s the beauty of blogging. It makes the world so much smaller and shows all of us how similar we really are…it unites instead of divides.
Our words can make a difference in someone’s life…and you do that beautifully and with such grace every day.
Love, Ev
I thought I had become cynical…
Your words brought tears to my eyes… again and again. Thank you.
I just sent them an email, offering to translate.