Captain Tom Moore is not the only elderly person with his own fundraising campaign to help those affected by the coronavirus pandemic. "My father was an army soldier, he taught me a long time ago how to do exercise, dance, skipping and so on," Singh explains. He aims to inspire others to stay active under the coronavirus lockdown and to help keep the community connected. Elsewhere in the UK, 100-year-old Dabirul Choudhury is walking laps of his community garden while fasting for Ramadan to raise money for COVID-19 victims. In Russia, Zinaida Korneva, a 97-year-old World War II veteran, is recounting her war stories on social media to raise money for the families of doctors who died of coronavirus.

Source: News 24 May 10, 2020 12:33 UTC