BRADFORD'S Nazim Ali who has raised over £750,000 for charitable causes at home and in Third World countries has launched his own Nazim Ali Foundation.

Nazim, from Manningham, has been raising money for underprivileged people in remote areas, such as Malawi and Uganda for over 26 years. He has helped build dozens of solid houses in settlements where people only had mud huts, and has helped distribute many hundreds of food parcels to the needy overseas with money he has been given in donations.

All the fundraising he carries out is documented and carried out through a charity. He provides videos and photographs of work being done and food being distributed.

He also pays for flights and accommodation from his own pocket so every penny of the donations he receives goes directly to the organisations and people he is helping.

At home for the past 10 years he has been volunteering at the Curry Circle which provides warm food to the homeless and needy, while taking hundreds of gifts to sick children at Bradford Royal Infirmary and Airedale Hospital children's wards at Christmas, Eid, Easter and the Prophet Muhammad's birthday as part of the Creating Smiles Gifts initiative. This itself is in its 11th year.

Along with these, and while working as a career officer in Bradford schools, Nazim has run his tenth 10k run during Ramadan, and completed a number of Great North Runs.

To mark the most recent birthday of Prophet Muhammad last month Nazim distributed chocolates and roses to nursing staff at Airedale and to members of the public in Keighley town centre. and toys to poorly children in hospital in Bradford and Airedale while launching his foundation.

Nazim said: "I express my gratitude to my long-term corporate sponsors, Shiraz Ahmed and Fairaz Ahmed, managing directors of Bradford-based Saveco Cash & Carry for their kind and selfless on-going support. They have been the main sponsors for the Creating Smiles Gifts initiative.

"My dear friend Wajid Khan and Keighley resident Muhammad Jibril Bashir, 17, (Friends of Airedale Hospital) accompanied me to Airedale Hospital and distributing the roses and chocolates in Keighley town centre. My dear friend Mohammed Azeem assisted me in selecting and purchasing the gifts. Mohammed Azeem spent 61 days in hospital of which 41 were in a coma as he successfully battled against Covid-19.

Wajid Khan said, "It was a great honour to have been asked to attend with my friend Nazim who never stops helping others and who I have had the pleasure with working with both on local and overseas charitable projects."