Woman crowdfunds £2,000 flight to New Zealand to meet biological father
She spent her entire life feeling she didn't belong anywhere before finding her father
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Your support makes all the difference.A woman is asking strangers for help in a quest to meet her biological father - after 47 years of “waiting.”
Donna Robertson, a 47-year-old woman from the UK, created a GoFundMe page after years of searching finally led her to her father - who lives on the "other side of the world" in New Zealand.
According to Robertson, ever since she was a little girl she has wanted to know her father but her mother had only ever shared his name.
Then, before her mother died a few years ago, Robertson asked once again for help in identifying her father.
Going off her grandfather's name and the fact that he was in the Navy, Robertson set out on a renewed hunt after a whole life of feeling as if she’d “never belonged anywhere.”
Finally “hitting the jackpot” earlier this year, Robertson discovered her grandfather’s obituary - which led to a family tree that matched the details she knew of her own father.
A lot of “heartache” and emails later, Robertson eventually made contact with her biological father - which they confirmed through a DNA test.
Now, Robertson is asking for help affording a flight to New Zealand to visit her 72-year-old father, who she fears she will only be able to meet once.
She wrote: “I know that there is no possible way I will ever be able to afford to travel there and get to meet him face-to-face and try and build a relationship with him, so I am asking for people’s help in uniting me with the man that I have been waiting to meet for 47 years.”
Currently, Robertson has received three donations towards her goal of £2,000, which would help her get to “feel my father’s warmth for the first time in my life.”
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