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Local company placing posters of missing kids on vehicles
July 21, 2007 09:35 AM CDT
Mother hopes mobile posters help solve daughter's disappearance
By Maira Ansari
LOUISVILLE (WAVE) -- A nationwide effort to help find missing children is hitting the roads of Louisville hoping to catch your eye. It's called "Project Home Again," and the people behind the effort hope to bring missing children back home. WAVE 3's Maira Ansari reports.
The idea is simple: get pictures and profiles of missing children moving all around town. One Louisville mother whose daughter vanished years ago hopes this effort will help find her daughter.
"I went downstairs to tell her to come on up and go to bed and she was gone," said Becky Haueter. Her daughter, Amy was last seen Louisville in 2005. She was considered a chronic runaway.
That's why Becky says "when she left this time, even I thought it's going to be a few days."
But now, nearly three years later, there is still no sign of Amy. Her profile is even on the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
But these days, that's not the only place where you'll see pictures of Amy.
"Trucks are constantly on the move," said HMC service technician Eric Conley.
Pictures of Amy and other local missing children can also be seen on magnetic posters on the back of commercial heating and air-conditioning service trucks.
"You do have people come up and ask what the program is about," Conley said. "I've even had them ask me if it's my child."
Since it started in 1998, Project Home Again, more than 6,000 posters of 250 different children have been placed on service vehicles across the country.
"The 200 contractors that are participating, from California to Florida through Connecticut have posters on their vehicles that are allowing us to help locate these missing children," said HMC Service Vice President Wayne Turchetta.
"It's basically a moving billboard," Turchetta said.
So far, 138 of the children features on the moving posters have been found. Three have been in the Louisville area.
Turchetta says the posters are definitely worth it. "Ten dollars a poster -- I mean, that's a lunch."
Becky says as hard as it is to see her daughter's picture on a missing person's poster, she's glad her picture is moving around town, so someone can hopefully give her answers to her daughter's disappearance.
"There are so many caring people out there," Becky said. "They don't know me. Or my daughter, but they care enough to try to help find her.
If you know any details about Amy's disappearance or the disappearance of any other child, please call 574-LMPD or 1-800-THE-LOST.
This story has also received national attention. NBC Nightly News was in Louisville recently, and plans to feature a story on Project Home Again on July 27th.