About Us
Family & Friends of Missing Persons Aotearoa is a charitable trust dedicated to providing ongoing support, information and education for those left behind when someone goes missing.
What we do:
1) Provide information about where and how to get support
2) Provide education about what you can do when someone goes missing
3) Provide supportive networking opportunities within communities.
Our Purpose:
Our general charitable purpose is that when any person in any community in New Zealand or a New Zealand citizen living overseas goes missing, our Charitable Trust will provide support to all family members and friends who live with the on-going cycle of uncertainties, and the constant state of ‘not-knowing’. We will provide an all inclusive, educational and informational service to assist those left behind.
Our Story:
In 1989 a 28 year old brother and son, Dr Peter Coop flew from Auckland to Dunedin to participate in a month-long medical training course. Although his possessions were found in the hostel where he had booked to stay for the month long course, he never arrived.
Once alerted to Peter being missing from his first class, the police searched the Otago Peninsula, Mt Kettle, and the surrounding hills of Dunedin in all directions.
There was a lot of news coverage at the time. A lot of speculation.
The only (relatively) positive sighting of Peter is by a previous collegue and fellow medical student, who believes she saw Peter waiting in the departure lounge, while she was running to catch a flight she was late for, in Invercargill.
But as yet, the whereabouts of Peter is not known. For those of us left behind there are many unanswered questions, some which may never be answered.
It is this underlying "not knowing" which has motivated Peter's family to coordinate an ongoing support service for all of us affected by a missing person; family, friends and all interested persons, groups, and communities.
If you require any further information please do not hesitate to E-mail us.
