JAMSHEDPUR, Feb. 21 -- It's sort of a fairytale coming true. 21-year-old Raja Gope alias Gomo grew up in child care homes of Kerala for the past 13 years, hoping against hope of finding his parents and siblings ever since he had gone missing. Now, his mother and siblings have been traced to the Handimara village under the Sonua police station (PS) in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, thanks to the efforts of two NGOs - Jaipur-based 'Ek Prayas Ghar Wapsi Ka and Ranchi-based Lapata Desk, people close to the matter said on Friday. Now, Raja Gope is all set for a happy reunion as his mother has reached Handimara village from Mecheda (Kharagpur in West Bengal), where she works in a brick kiln. And what's more, Raja is now a football star playing for the Kerala Blasters FC. "My husband Budhram Gope had sent 8-year-old Raja to the market with Rs.50 for buying rice in 2013. But he never returned. He was then a Class 1 student in the Hand Imara middle school. He was not found after much search. His heartbroken father died in 2016 and I had to shift to West Bengal for daily wage work. We have no words to describe our feelings and can't wait to see and embrace him. Heard that now he is a big man," Mani Gope told the media on Friday after reaching Handimara. This became possible after the West Singhbhum superintendent of police (SP) Amit Renu launched a special initiative and the Sonua PS officer-in-charge (OC) Shashibala Bhengra showed Raja's photo and videos to the Handimara mukhiya and relatives who confirmed him as the missing since of Budhram Gope. "We have started paperworks with the authorities in Kannur for bringing Raja Gope back to Handimara village," Bhengra, Sonua OC, told HT on Friday. "Raja had somehow boarded a train and ended up at Trissur station in Kerala. He was then handed over to the child welfare committee (CWC) of Ernakulam on October 24, 2013 and was kept at a child shelter home. He was admitted to the St Thomas LP School there. He was again shifted to the government children home in Thrissur on December 26, 2016 and stayed there till he attained the age of 19. The Thalassery child home superintendent Ashraf OK contacted us and Lapata Desk and we circulated his photos and whatever little information about his parents, siblings and village Raja still remembered. Kanda Soy of Handimara village contacted me and then we arranged for Raja to talk with his mother and three sisters on video call," Rajneesh Jain of 'Ek Prayas Ghar Wapsi Ka,' told HT on Friday over the phone. Raja's elder brother Fantus has also died while one of his four sisters has been married off. Mani Gope runs the family with three daughters by working in a brick kiln in Mecheda, near Khargapur in West Bengal....