“True charity is the
desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.”
The quote above signifies the true motive
behind Simrin Choudhrie. Interior designer by profession and philanthropist by
choice, Simrin has always continually added to the benefit of society. Brought
up in a wealthy family, she has always believed in undertaking path breaking
work for the underprivileged section of society and now is a trustee to various
charity organisations.
Simrin has always believed in the idea of
spending time amid the needy to understand their issues and attend to them
innately. This was one of the reasons which led her to feature on the famous
reality TV show “Secret Millionaire” where millionaires are supposed to stay
incognito at poverty stricken areas to understand the plight unprivileged live
through. Simrin stayed disguised as an
impoverished pregnant woman at St. Wilfrid’s Centre for vulnerable and socially
excluded. Her innate love for the people she stayed with and their major
concerns pushed her to sign the biggest amount of charity ever received on the
show.
On getting to know who she actually is,
everybody at the centre including director Kevin Bradley was taken aback. He
stated: “What she has done for St Wilfrid’s is absolutely mind-blowing.
“When she revealed who she was it just felt
surreal - things like that don’t happen in real life, or so you think.”
She got so attached and drawn towards the
people that it pushed her to sign the biggest donation cheque ever received on
the show.
“The
money she has pledged will make a huge difference to the lives of vulnerable
people in Sheffield.”
According to Kevin, the bond now formed between
Simrin and others extends more than charity; it’s a relationship for life.
“She is such a lovely girl,” Kevin said. “You
would never know where she came from - there was nothing pretentious about her.
“At different points I did start to think there
was something a little mysterious about her,” Kevin said. “But I could never
really get to the bottom of it.
“When the time came for her to reveal herself
to me I’d convinced myself I was being silly - so I was certainly shocked when
she told me she was millionaire!
“She was really upset - crying that she felt
like she had been deceitful towards me - and she said she felt bad because she
had come to see me as a kind of father figure.
“Everybody was crying when she came out with
the news, we just couldn’t believe it. It was a very emotional day.”
Simrin has equal love and regard for Wilfrid,
which became evident when she named her son Kabir Bhanu Wilfrid Choudhrie.
“That’s how much she loves the place - she
wanted to name her son after us!” Kevin said.
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