Recognised as a
successful interior designer, Simrin Choudhrie is a celebrated philanthropist
as well. Connecting with the world with a zest for helping the unprivileged,
Simrin has always tried to break the shackles and work outside her limits to
help them. Her ideology is that until you spend time amid those who require
help, you will not be able to form a loving relationship with them.
The idea of
contributing towards the society as a responsible citizen, Simrin signed up for
the hit reality TV show “Secret Millionaire”, and stayed at the St. Wilfrid’s
Centre with vulnerable and socially excluded people, acting as an impoverished,
pregnant lady. After getting to know her real identity, everybody including the
director Kevin Bradley was in a state of shock. After
everyone on the centre on Queens Road knew her identity, she promised the
six-figure sum to be donated over the next five years.
Simrin ended up
donating the biggest amount ever received on the show to the charity house.
Kevin exclaimed, “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.
“The money she has pledged will make a huge
difference to the lives of vulnerable people in Sheffield.”
Simrin’s involvement was more than just
charity as she got really attached to the people and the staff and clients had
gotten an amazing human being as a friend 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.”
She was so much attached to the foundation
that she has named her baby boy Kabir Bhanu Wilfrid Choudhrie.
“That’s how much she loves the place - she
wanted to name her son after us!” Kevin said.
Sharing his happiness on having met Simrin,
he added:
“We have made a friend for life in Simrin,
and that’s a wonderful thing.”
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