Hope and heartbreak for campaigner Kate McCann

Writing for The Independent today, Kate McCann speaks movingly about her own experiences as the mother of a missing child.

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The story of her daughter, Madeleine, is obviously an especially high-profile one. Her sentiments, though, will strike a chord with everyone who has suffered such a trauma, and all should find them highly affecting: “Whenever I hear about a young person who feels vulnerable, frightened, or at risk, it resonates so deeply. I recognise the fear, the exhaustion, and the fragile balance between hope and heartbreak that families live with every day.”

And the feelings of those who love the 72,000 children who go missing every year are equally special and unique. Every human being is. Financially and otherwise, that is also every reason to support anything that can help reunite a family or provide that essential, precious relief of knowing that a child is at least safe.