STORIES

Mommy, get me out of here

Every year hundreds of children go missing in Latvia. When a child is missing, every hour counts and sometimes even minutes. This is when rapid reaction and wide publicity are extremely important.

Bezvests.lv app helps to engage people who care and want to help. Even if they only know how the missing kid looks like it increases the chances to find the child faster.

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The Story Behind

Every day people are going missing and unfortunately will keep going missing, that’s the sad reality we live in.
It can beelderly people, kids, people with disabilities or someone who is in trouble.

What is really of any importance, is that the family that came to such distress situation is not left alone, without support, help, and hope.

Bezvests.lv is a volunteer and charity organization that is searching for missing people in Latvia and we wanted to help them out with that important mission.

Meklēšanā izsludināto personu skaits
2015
752
2016
841
2017
1075
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I was sold into slavery

All over the world, people get kidnapped, held captive, forced to work as labor and sex slaves, and Latvia is no exception.

Sometimes only one hint is enough to help to find a kidnapped person. Bezvests.lv app helps to widen the range of possible kidnapping witnesses and find the missing person.

Help
The Story Behind

Every day people are going missing and unfortunately will keep going missing, that’s the sad reality we live in.
It can beelderly people, kids, people with disabilities or someone who is in trouble.

What is really of any importance, is that the family that came to such distress situation is not left alone, without support, help, and hope.

Bezvests.lv is a volunteer and charity organization that is searching for missing people in Latvia and we wanted to help them out with that important mission.

Meklēšanā izsludināto personu skaits
2015
752
2016
841
2017
1075
Back
HelpReveal story details

I don't know where I am and how I got here

Seniors make another risk group. Quite often they have weak health, sight, and hearing which decreases their chances to survive when lost.

Similarly to children, when a senior goes missing every hour counts. Bezvests.lv app improves the chances to find the lost senior in need of help.

Help
The Story Behind

Every day people are going missing and unfortunately will keep going missing, that’s the sad reality we live in.
It can beelderly people, kids, people with disabilities or someone who is in trouble.

What is really of any importance, is that the family that came to such distress situation is not left alone, without support, help, and hope.

Bezvests.lv is a volunteer and charity organization that is searching for missing people in Latvia and we wanted to help them out with that important mission.

Meklēšanā izsludināto personu skaits
2015
752
2016
841
2017
1075
Back
HelpReveal story details

They will sell my body for parts

Sometimes young and healthy people become victims of organ hunters. They get kidnapped on streets or nightclubs, get drugged and taken away for illegal organ harvesting. Every one of us can help to find a missing person — we just need to know who to look for.

Help
The Story Behind

Every day people are going missing and unfortunately will keep going missing, that’s the sad reality we live in.
It can beelderly people, kids, people with disabilities or someone who is in trouble.

What is really of any importance, is that the family that came to such distress situation is not left alone, without support, help, and hope.

Bezvests.lv is a volunteer and charity organization that is searching for missing people in Latvia and we wanted to help them out with that important mission.

Meklēšanā izsludināto personu skaits
2015
752
2016
841
2017
1075
Back
HelpReveal story details

BEHIND THE STORY

When 5-year old Ivan Berladin went missing in Liepāja and later was found with no signs of life most people were shocked. Developers of Chili Labs were no exception. They offered their help to BEZVESTS.LV in creating a mobile application to make searching for missing people faster and more efficient, and a creative agency Tribe Riga took on the making of an information campaign.

Every year hundreds of children, adults, and seniors go missing in Latvia. Their families, police, and volunteers look for them, but search operations require more people, equipment and other resources. But sometimes all it takes is just one witness who has noticed a missing person and one phone call to the police or a searching organization that can save somebody’s life.

Bezvests.lv app solves two tasks at once — it informs about missing people and is used for coordinating search groups. Informed people may recognize the missing person and even prevent the accident. Also, it makes the search more efficient because almost everyone now has a smartphone.

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Bezvests.lv

BEZVESTS.LV is a volunteer organization that searches for missing people. Since 2009 BEZVESTS.LV volunteers have completed more than 800 search events and over 100 missing people were found.

Chili Labs

Chili Labs develops efficient, responsive and handy mobile apps. When Chili Labs developers learned about BEZVESTS.LV volunteers' work they wanted to help and created Bezvests.lv app for searching for missing people. This app is available for anyone with an iOS or Android smartphone. Learn more about how to help find missing people at www.bezvests.lv/app

Tribe Riga

The creative agency Tribe Riga came up with a visually engaging campaign for Bezvests.lv app including the idea, the concept, the photoshoot, and animation. Based on relatable emotions, this campaign red-flags the importance of missing and invites more people to start using the Bezvests app. The more people use it, the higher the chance of finding the missing people alive.