For the past four months a generous charity worker from Croydon has been sending care packages to soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
Now, as the second battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers return home, Neal O’Gorman is encouraging Croydon residents to start sending packages out themselves.
Mr O’Gorman said: “We became involved in sending out care packs because I was concerned there could be soldiers without close family or who did not have the funds to send them packages, and when their mates were opening theirs they were sitting in the corner with nothing.
“Most of my fundraising is done with friends and neighbours and as I have been made redundant I have lost a lot of the people that were helping me at work.”
Mr O’Gorman who works with a lot of charities in Croydon raises funds with his wife Kim and his son Sam.
He added: “I do not want to put pressure on the same people again and again.
"So we are going to have to reluctantly to stop sending out packs for a while. There are so many charities and so little money.”
One soldier in particular was chosen by the O’Gormans because he has very few close family members in the UK.
Fusilier Paul Nakoma from the second battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers has been receiving parcels since the summer.
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