Grace speaks to the media in Port Louis on Thursday. — file pic
Lawyer Grace Subathirai Nathan, whose mother, Anne Daisy vanished with 238 other passengers on March 8, 2014, posted on Facebook the group had successful meetings with the local press and relevant authorities, including the Department of Civil Aviation and Mauritius’ Tourism and External Communications Ministry on Thursday.
She said all parties were "receptive and keen to help”.
"They have agreed to alert the organisations under their purview and share the brochures and information pack,” she posted.
Following the press conference at Le Saint Georges Hotel in Port Louis, Grace said the group received a significant amount of messages via email and other social media platforms from people who wanted to help.
"One gentleman found my number and called to tell us he was a Malaysian living in Mauritius. He later met us and invited us to his home to offer help in any way he can. He is also putting us in touch with members of Rotaract.”
As of date, the group has met the Mauritian tourism authority, police, dive and hotel associations, the department’s deputy director and the ministry’s senior chief executive.
She said a protocol regarding the handover of the debris was in place between Malaysia and Mauritius, as potential and actual debris had been found there before.
Prior to that, during the group’s stint in Madagascar, a local fisherman had handed in a debris on December 10, which he found in September, to private investigator Blaine Alan Gibson.
On December 7, another next of kin Jiang Hui had found the first debris on the Riake Beach, Isle St Marie, believed to be from MH370.
A day later, Gibson with two French journalists Pierre Chabert and Renaud Fessaguet also found another piece of wreckage, near where the first piece was found.
The group was scheduled to leave for Malaysia today, but further details are pending confirmation from Grace or other representatives.
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