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A mum has helped reunite more than 3000 people around the world with their lost loved ones.

Angie Sivagnanas­undaram is the founder of Missing People Scotland, who help families get back together, sometimes after decades and thousands of miles apart.

Angie, 49, and her team of 15 admin volunteers work through a Facebook page, which now has more than 80,000 followers and a reach which extends around the globe.

The cal l centre worker, of Langbank, Renfrewshi­re, originally set up the page in 2011 to help the family of Susan Marshall, 55, who was missing for 43 days before her body was pulled from the River Clyde in Glasgow.

The Missing People Scotland page has since helped raise the profile of missing persons cases such as Paige Doherty, John Murphy and Scott Diver.

While those cases ended tragically, Angie’s page has also helped reunite families w thought they would never see each other ag

The selfless mum of three, whose miss people’s forum has been nominated for a G Scot Unsung Hero Award, said: “We are ju bunch of wee men and women in Scotl who got together to run a group. We had idea just how big this was going to be.

“Even though we are based in Scotland know if we share a post someone somewh else in the world will share that.

“So you can reach not just Scotland or e the UK but everywhere now. We have there had lovely stories of reconnecti­ng families f around the world.

“We’ve had people contacting us who h been searching for their birth mother for m

 ??  ?? SEARCH Angie’s Facebook page MAKING A DIFFERENCE Angie, right, at work on her Facebook page, above Pics Jamie Williamson
SEARCH Angie’s Facebook page MAKING A DIFFERENCE Angie, right, at work on her Facebook page, above Pics Jamie Williamson

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