So you can rent the “Empty Rooms” left by missing women and help find them

Through the “Empty Rooms” initiative, it is possible to virtually rent the bedrooms of girls and women who are missing in Mexico. Below the photograph of the room for rent is described the conditions in which it is, what it is equipped with and the amount for which it is rented, which is only ten pesos.

Donations help the families of the disappeared to continue the search, as they often stop their working lives in order to search for their loved ones. The official website of the initiative also includes data to donate directly to those who rent the room of their missing relatives.

The options from which you can choose include warm rooms to rest after a day's work, some bright and equipped, others fully furnished. All of them have been kept intact by the parents of their owners, who lost their trace even more than ten years ago.

In the descriptions are the address and a detailed list of the belongings left behind by girls and women who have not yet been found, including their favorite objects: the flat screen TV where Perla watched series and movies, Zaira's blue heels, Nimbe's school supplies or Karla's books.

It also includes the date on which each one disappeared and briefly recounts the circumstances in which they disappeared, in which you can delve into the videos where their relatives tell more details of the cases. Among the stories that can be found is that of Nimbe Selene Zepeta Xochihua, who went out to take the transport to her school and did not return.

This is a project that seeks to obtain donations and disseminate about the disappearance of women and girls in Mexican territory. The idea originally arose in Brussels, where parents of children who are victims of car accidents rent their children's rooms and collect donations for awareness campaigns so that motorists drive with care.

In Mexico there are currently 22,106 missing women, of whom 55% are minors and 10 more are added daily. In this regard, those responsible for the initiative affirm: “In Mexico, thousands of women disappear year after year, and their families, in addition to living with pain, must deal with the economic problem that comes with their search and the dissemination of their case.”

It is an initiative promoted by the Mexican Association of Stolen and Disappeared Children AC (AMNRDAC), dedicated to searching, locating, rescuing and reintegrating missing persons who have been stolen, abducted or even voluntarily absent.

The AMNRDAC was founded by María Elena Solis Gutiérrez, who pledged to help searching families after in 1994 she managed to recover her granddaughter, who was robbed by a domestic worker and was found after fifty days of intense searching in which she went to the media and posted leaflets throughout the city.

For the initiative, the civil association partnered with platforms such as Facebook Marketplace, Airbnb, Homie, Real Estate 24, Lamudi, Mercado Libre, Second Hand or Viva Anuncios, which invite users to symbolically book the bedrooms of at least five missing women, whose cases were selected to raise awareness .

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