The MFE Agent Network: How a Global Community Helps Find the Missing

MFE Agents are community members around the world who choose to receive alerts when new missing person cases are published. They are not investigators or staff. They are the Ethiopian diaspora and its friends, in the cities, camps, and neighbourhoods where missing people are most likely to be recognised.

An agent agrees to two simple things: to receive alerts for the regions they select, and to send a tip if they ever recognise someone or hear something credible.

01The Problem It Solves

When someone goes missing on a migration route, the search is scattered. A family posts an appeal, it drifts through social media for a day, and then it sinks. The Agent Network fixes the timing and targeting by delivering each new case straight to people who have opted in where it matters.

02How It Works

The process follows these steps:

1. You register and choose your regions
2. A new case is published
3. Agents in the region are alerted
4. An agent recognises someone
5. A secure tip returns, and the family is updated

03What an Agent Actually Does

Being an agent involves:

• Receiving alerts for chosen regions
• Keeping an eye out in your community and networks
• Sharing public appeals when appropriate
• Sending a tip if you recognise someone

There is no quota and no obligation.

04Your Privacy and Safety

Agents' identities are never made public, families' private details are never shared with agents, and tips return securely to the team only, not publicly.

05Who Can Become an Agent

Anyone who wants to help and can keep watch in their community is welcome, wherever they live.

06How to Join

Joining takes a few minutes and costs nothing through the "Get Involved" section.