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Sammanfattning: Missing People Sweden (MPS) is a Swedish voluntary organization that mainly works with publishing notifications of people who have gone missing and organizing search parties to try and find them. This thesis seeks to investigate how the participants in the organization describe and interpret their participation, focusing on accounts of collaborating with public sector organizations. The purpose of this is to try and gain a deeper understanding of the development of the Swedish voluntary sector, and how this participation is described by the participants in said sector. The thesis uses qualitative interview and observation as well as theories about late modernity to try and capture these accounts. The participants describe how they see public sector organizations as being held back by rules and regulations and in that sense they describe their own participation as free and more flexible. At the same time, they express a certain loneliness; in their accounts MPS are the only ones who go looking for people who have gone missing and who comfort to their relatives. The participants also express a view of contemporary society as being cold and hostile. This is interpreted as an expression of unsicherheit. In light of this view their accounts of participating in the organization are created as a way of countering this hostility. The organization is experienced as a warm and broad community with the ability to organize peoples compassion.