A DELIVERY company wants to reunite missing people with their friends and family in time for Mother’s Day.

Deliveroo will display the faces of missing people on the rucksacks of its riders in Brighton in the hope that somebody may recognise them.

The appeals will be shown in areas close to where the person was last seen.

One of first to be featured is Georgina Gharsallah.

The 32-year-old mother of two was reported missing in March 2018 and her disappearance is now being treated by police as a murder investigation.

The move comes as part of Deliveroo’s Ride To Find scheme, run in partnership with charity group Missing People. It follows an initial campaign launched in December 2018 in London, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester which helped to find five missing people.

The scheme will now be rolled out in Brighton for the first time.

Will Shu, chief executive and Deliveroo’s first ever rider, said: “Working with Missing People in 2018 is something we are genuinely proud of at Deliveroo.

“It also, very quickly, became clear that this partnership was something riders felt very passionate about being part of.

“So, this year we are dedicated to working closer with our riders and providing more missing people posters for them to wear.

“I sincerely hope that partnering for a second time means we help to find more missing people as well as continue to raise awareness across the country.”

Deliveroo will also be encouraging more than 30,000 members of its staff across the UK to sign up to receive Missing People’s Child Rescue text alerts to notify them when a child in their area disappears.

Someone is reported missing every 90 seconds in the UK – 80 per cent are found within 24 hours but one in five cases takes longer.

If someone goes missing for more than a week, their chances of being found reduces dramatically.

Mr Shu said: “For these people, every second counts and the more people who see pictures of the missing person, the greater the chance that they are found.”

Jo Youle, chief executive at Missing People, said: “This campaign is such a brilliant way of raising awareness in local communities, both of the issues involved in missing, and the 186,000 people who go missing every year in the UK.

“Missing People provides support for those who are missing, children and adults thinking of going missing and the families left behind through our free helpline and our support services.”