An 11-year-old Afghan refugee is donating his entire savings in pocket money to the South Australian bushfire appeal.
"I want to thank all the firefighters who couldn't spend time with their families, who were just out there risking their lives to save this nation.In order to donate, Murtaza broke his piggy bank which he had kept since he was four years old.
He carried a bag containing $204 in coins to the Wali-e-Asr Centre, where the South Australian Afghan Hazara community met to fundraise for the state's bushfire appeal. "If something like this happened to us and people didn't care, we'd be sad, so I don't want the people who've lost their homes to feel like that," he said.
"I think I should be proud of myself right now but I would've given more if I had, so I'm not fully proud of myself yet … I'm halfway there.""I would give him a dollar or two a day, sometimes even fifty or twenty cents," he said. "Every time he does well at school and brings home certificates, I try to encourage him by awarding him with more money and he would put it straight in his piggy bank."
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