A 10-year-old girl from Oldham is walking 50 kilometres for charity in honour of her late grandad. Every day, Hannah Miah is walking around seven or eight kilometres to fundraise for Muslim Charity 's campaign to help street children in Bangladesh.
According to the U.N., there are an estimated 600,000 street children in Bangladesh, often abandoned or trafficked, who find themselves running away from violence and facing the dangers and perils of street life. READ MORE: Birthday Honours: Legend of Asian football in Oldham nets MBE For over six years now, Muslim Charity has been rescuing street children, so far, having saved over 10,000 children and reunited hundreds of lost children with families.
Inspired by the fundraising efforts of her late grandad, Hannah will walk from Oldham to her grandad's grave in Rawtenstall in Lancashire.
In May, she will also be climbing Mount Snowdon in Wales with her family. This is the second year that Hannah has taken on a walking challenge for the charity- last year, she raised £15,620, which went towards building two shelters for Bangladeshi street children.
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