Mother abandons online appeal to raise £5,000 to take her two daughters to Disneyworld after her crowdfunding page attracts abuse and just £10
- Nikki Smith, 33, from Bristol, tried to raise money for daughters, aged 10 and 12
- The post has been shared and ridiculed more than 18,000 times on social media
- She works part-time in a hospital and said she can't save enough for the holiday
A mother-of-two has ditched an online appeal after trying to crowdfund £5,000 so she could take her daughters to Disneyland.
Nikki Smith, 33, from Bristol, only managed to raise £10 towards the holiday and took down the GoFundMe page when it attracted abuse.
The hospital worker, who can only work two nights a week, said she cannot save enough money to take her two children, age 10 and 12, to the U.S. theme park.
Mother-of-two Nikki Smith, 33, from Bristol has ditched an online appeal after trying to crowdfund £5,000 so she could take her daughters, aged 10 and 12, to Disneyland
In an appeal on the page, she wrote: 'I have been blessed with the most amazing, kind, loving and caring daughters, they are my best friends and my life.
'They watch a lot of YouTube videos where children are surprised by their parents with a holiday to Disneyworld and I know I would never be able to get them there on my own.
'By the time I save up they will be too old to enjoy it.
'We lost two very special people in our lives these past couple of years and this really would give them so much to look forward to, please help me make my daughters dreams come true.'
The post was shared more than 18,000 times on social media and attracted ridicule online.
She told the Sun: 'I just thought it would be the only way it would ever happen.
She only managed to raise £10 towards the holiday and took down the GoFundMe page when it attracted abuse (file photo)
'I didn’t realise – it was a bad idea I guess.
'I didn’t think people would react like that.'
The controversial page has provoked outrage on social media.
Donna-Marie Wright wrote on Facebook: 'Well it seems if you want to have a holiday these days, you just need to set up a GoFundme.'
Jen Donaldson posted on the social media site: 'What's worse is that two people have donated!'
Ashley Scott wrote: 'There's kids dying and crying out for help for Go Fund Me pages for treatment to save their lives. I know which one I would be donating to.'
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