LONDON - A 99-year-old British World War II veteran has raised almost 12 million pounds in his fundraising challenge for front-line health workers by walking laps of his garden.
Tom Moore, a captain who served in India, is being sponsored to complete 100 lengths of his 25-metre garden in time for his 100th birthday at the end of the month. He originally planned to raise 1,000 pounds for a National Health Service charity after receiving treatment for a broken hip and cancer. But in recent days, the total has soared far past his expectations. By Wednesday , he had raised more than 4 million pounds. A day later, he is now approaching the 12-million-pound mark and has to do just one more round of laps in his garden in Bedfordshire, south England, with the help of his walking frame."In the last war it was soldiers in uniform on the front line. This time our army are the doctors and nurses uniforms," he told ITV's Good Morning Britain earlier this week.
A post on Moore's Twitter account on Wednesday night said:"It's been a crazy 24 hours, and what with Tom doing his final laps... tomorrow, we expect tomorrow to be just as crazy."The veteran has received online support from former Manchester United and Arsenal football captains Rio Ferdinand and Tony Adams, Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes, and several charities, television shows and newspapers.
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