A Good Samaritan from Delhi ended the concerns of a worried family of a South African teacher of Indian-origin, who had gone missing in India last month.

Shaun Gounden, 34, set out from his Johannesburg home on February 5 to spend three weeks at a Tibetan monastery in Delhi before volunteering to teach English at an orphanage in Afghanistan, Time TV reported.

Family and friends of Shaun Gounden began a frantic search for Gounden after they had failed to hear from him since February 9.

They contacted the South African embassy in Delhi police, airlines and even the India Tourism Office in desperate attempts to locate him.

Earlier this week, the family received an e-mail from someone in Delhi to say that Gounden had been found disoriented by a local named only as Tenzin, who was attending him.

Gounden's sister Sudashini said the last message from her brother had indicated that he was going to the Himalayas, but that he was feeling unwell in the cold weather. Communication from him then stopped, she said.