The centenarian hit his target just a few hours after launching his campaign 👏
Dabirul Islam Choudhury, from St Albans, was inspired to raise £1,000 for vulnerable people in the UK and Bangladesh after seeing war veteran Colonel Tom Moore bring in £32 million for the NHS.
The accomplished poet, who has been isolating for two months, has since become ‘one of the highest respected individuals’ in the St Albans community.He has taken the reigns of many fundraising projects over the years and his son, Atique Choudhury, told BBC London that his father shows no sign of slowing down.
He said: ‘When we started, we started at a small pace but he’s been increasing his number of laps he’s doing.‘The problem we have is that we have to try and stop him because he wants to carry on.’
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