KHUJAND, September 8, 2010, Asia-Plus  -- Tajikistan’s first public nonprofit missing people association, Diyor, has opened in Khujand.

The Diyor chairperson, Ms. Bahrinisso Abdurahmonova, says the organization assists families inside and outside Tajikistan in locating missing relatives and reuniting them with their families.

Ms. Abdurahmonova had previously worked as volunteer for TV talk show of Russia’s TV Channel One, Zdi Menya (Wait for Me), which searches for missing people.  Now she decided to set up the nonprofit missing people organization in Khujand.  To-date, the Diyor has helped find several persons reported missing.

“The last case concerned the 31-year-old Zhanar Orazalina.  Local persons engaged in driving cars from the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) to Tajikistan brought her to Khujand ten years ago.  She has lived at the trash dump in recent years and has given birth to daughter,” said Abdurahmonova, “We found her parents in the city of Raduzhny, Russia’s Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region.  We are currently completing formalities through the Russian Consulate in Khujand for returning her to homeland.  The public association, Dina, dealing with rehabilitation of drug dependent persons has asked us to find her parents.”