Fundraising feet: Capt. Tom s legacy lives in 11-year-old Share Updated: 5:27 AM EST Feb 5, 2021 By DANICA KIRKA, Associated Press
Fundraising feet: Capt. Tom s legacy lives in 11-year-old Share Updated: 5:27 AM EST Feb 5, 2021
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Show Transcript after British World War two vet captain Tom Moore went viral for his efforts to battle the Corona virus. More than 125,000 birthday cards poured in to commemorate his 1/100 birthday. More has been doing laps in his garden to help raise money for the National Health Service. And you could say it s been pretty effective since he s brought in $36 million scored a Guinness World record for a charity walk. And with Mawr turning 100 on April 30th the goodwill messages came in nearly as fast as the cash. Thousands of letters were brought into the Bedford school in central England, where they promptly filled half the school s hall. Volunteers began reading and then displaying them, and the res
Captain Sir Tom Moore s legacy lives on in 11-year-old
The legacy of Captain Sir Tom Moore, the super fundraiser who died this week of COVID-19, lives on in Imogen Papworth-Heidel - and many others.
The 11-year-old soccer player, who dreams of playing for England, watched Captain Tom pushing his walker up and down his garden to raise money for the National Health Service and was inspired.
So she decided to help by doing something she s good at: keepy uppies â kicking the ball into the air and passing it from one foot to the other without letting it touch the ground.
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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by her family, Margaret Payne poses for a photo on the stairs of her home in Sutherland, Scotland. The legacy of Capt. Tom Moore, the super fundraiser who died Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021 of COVID-19, lives on in many people. Payne, 90, walked up the stairs in her home 282 times to raise 416,000 pounds for the NHS. Payne, from Ardvar in the Scottish Highlands, calculated that the feat was the equivalent of climbing 731 meters (2,398 feet), or the height of Suilven, one of Scotland s best known mountains that she scaled when she was 15.(Payne Family via AP, File)
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