A 5-year-old boy with prosthetic legs has raised $1 million by walking 6 miles

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A 5-year-old boy with two prosthetic legs has raised more than £1 million for the hospital that saved his life when he was just weeks old, by walking a total of six miles over the past month.

Tony Hudgell lost both his legs after suffering abuse from his biological parents as a newborn, which left him on life support at a London children's hospital.He set out to raise £500 for the same hospital by walking throughout June -- but smashed that target almost instantly, raising £1.1 million on his online fundraising page as of Wednesday.

Read MoreTony had only recently learned to walk on crutches but was inspired to complete the challenge after watching"Captain Tom" Moore, the 100-year-old war veteran who became a national celebrity after raising more than $40 million for Britain's National Health Service by doing 100 laps of his back garden, his JustGiving page says.

 

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A beautiful boy of 5 determined grateful empathetic strong and kind shows us greatness and love are displayed by the young and old. People are great together. ❤

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salute toU sir

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That little boy deserves a medal. What a boy ,I just can't say enough about how fantastic he is . That poor child must have endured much pain on that walk. CON GRATS TO HIM.

this amount does not even represent the daily U.S. military spending only in the Middle East.

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That is marvellous. I Pray he has a wonderful fruitful life. IT GOES TO SHOW THAT THOSE WHO HAVE THE POWER TO ENSURE PRIME HEALTH CARE FOR EVERYONE ACTUALLY DEPRIVE EVERYONE AND GET RICH DOING IT AND THAT SHOWS THEY DON’T HAVE A BLOODY LEG TO STAND ON 5/7/2020 5:16 pm

My respects!

the courage of that little baby walking to give someone else a gift👼 he was so tired! He just fell down that child has more courage than our president! so so proud of you young man you show us how we should be as a ppl. How we should give of more thank you and may God bless you

Encouraging indeed

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Nice to see some good news

Wow, I've really been slacking in quarantine.

first like lets gooooooo

Wow what a brave young man ,he’s my hero

I’m so happy

God bless you boy

Ahhh! How beautiful is that! See you can come up with something to kick in with!

Congratulations and God bless you!

you're reaching new lows. You STOLE that kids' spotlight. You know it, we know it, everybody knows it. The liberal liars jumping to your defense knows it. Leave the kids out of it. cnnpr att

Amazing! What a strong little man. Wish would report more positive news like this

wishing him well

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