"She is alive" were the two words the father of a Perth volunteer who was found alive on Sunday after the devastating Nepal earthquake so desperately longed to hear.
Ballantyne Paige Forder, 20, who been working in an orphanage in Kathmandu, had been missing after the deadly 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on Saturday morning.
Ms Forder's father Ben told Radio 6PR on Monday morning the family got a phone call from a friend of his daughter's on Sunday.
"A lady contacted her from London and she was able to get "Billie"... she had a mobile but limited signal so she only said a few words," he said. "Then this lady rang us and said she was alive. Thank God.
"Well, we slept last night -that is something."
Ms Forder's sister Amanda-Sue Markham then took to Twitter, to say Billie had been found, following her desperate pleas for help over the past few days.
She tweeted: "My baby sister is safe. Prayers answered as she and the orphanage moved to safety."
Mr Forder said the family still hadn't spoken to Billie.
"But there has been contact and we do know she is alive," he said.
"It's all up in the air and we still have to get her to safety.
"She still needs to be rescued... she is camping out with her orphans, which will need care.
"And she wouldn't want to leave them without care."
Mr Forder said even if rescue crews found Billie she might not want to leave.
"It will be hard," he said. "I was speaking to the government department and they said we have got to try and locate her, and what's the story with getting her back if she doesn't want to come back?
"She won't want to leave the kids. She is pretty attached to them. "
It was the second piece of good news for Western Australian families desperately trying to get information from loved ones stuck in the region.
Earlier on Sunday Shannen Wynne and Callumn Shelley also made contact with their families, more than 24 hours after the quake, to confirm they were alive and well.
As many as 350 Australians remain unaccounted for however, as the search continues.
