"After eight years roaming in the streets, hospitals and morgues across Egypt, I could finally embrace my boy," said Gaballah al-Azouni, a father who lost his child when he was five years old.

"I couldn't believe my ears when the administrator of 'Lost Children' page on the Facebook told me that he has found my boy in an orphanage in the outskirts of Cairo," al-Azouni, a 57-year-old tennis coach told Xinhua.

"Losing a child even for one day could destroy a whole family," al-Azouni said sadly, unveiling that the mother has passed away due to suffering a severe depression one year after the boy was missed.

According to the Egyptian laws, a death certificate could be issued if four years passed on the disappearance of any person, but the father rejected to do that.

"I know deeply in my heart that my son is alive somewhere and God will join us together one day," said the father.

The boy, Marwan, 14 years old, is still feeling isolated and he is encouraged by his family to integrate into the society.

"I was memorizing the faces of my parents, and I recognized my dad when I saw him in the orphanage for the first time," said Marwan in a shy low voice.

"I'm so happy to have a family and my private room now after I used to sleep in a dormitory with 20 boys," he said.

Since 2011, child abduction has been on the rise in Egypt as the political transition, weak economy, lax border control and corruption problems have worsened the situation.

"Civil society activities were a must to help the government," said Ramy el-Gebally, an engineer in his forties who has launched a page on the Facebook named "Lost Children" to combat the phenomena and raise the awareness of families on how to protect the children.

"The ghost of children abduction is echoing everywhere, and in all the cases negligence of the parents isn't the main reason, because the kidnappers have new methods of taking the children," Gebally told Xinhua.

The page, which has six administrators, was launched at the beginning of 2015. So far, it has attracted 780,000 followers.

"The idea started by collecting the photos of kidnapped or lost children and uploads them with information about their hometown and the families' phone numbers on the page, and wait for reactions from the people, maybe someone could recognize or find one of the children," he explained.

Gebally added that his page has managed to return 140 cases ranged between two to seventy years so far, and among the them, 7 were kidnapped, 13 were found in orphanages, and the others were either lost or controlled by gangs.

"Marwan is a lucky boy, because his father kept looking for him," he told Xinhua, adding that "most of the lost children's families are so poor and from remote provinces, and they don't know how to search for their children. Some families are even scared to report to the police stations."

According to rights groups, children aged between one to five years old are most vulnerable to abduction. Most of the abduction cases in Egypt have been reported in rural areas.

The Egyptian foundation of Advancement of Childhood (EFAC) documented 63 cases of child abduction during the first five months of 2016, with 70 percent from rural areas.

The report added that 80 percent of the cases were financially motivated, with the abductors asking for ransom.

Besides his "Lost Children" page, there are other more websites or public pages on social platforms which focus on the lost children in Egypt nowadays, representing the increased awareness from the public on this problem.

Also, the alarming cases of child abductions have made some Egyptian parents worried about going out with their children.

"I never take my eyes away from my children whenever we go out fearing they might be kidnapped," Amany Okeal, mother in her thirties told Xinhua.

"Every day I check the pages of lost or missed children to follow the cases, praying for God that those children will return home," Okeal said.

"The principal of the 'Lost Children' page is that the civil society could solve the problem," Gebally said.

"The page created a state of interaction and feeling of responsibility among the people who feel the danger of the problem and intervene by all means," he said.