Meet 98 year old Dobri Dobrev,
a man who lost his hearing in the
second world war. Every day he walks
10 kilometers from his village in his homemade
clothes and leather shoes to the city of Sofia,
where he spends the day begging for money.
Though a well known fixture around several
of the city’s churches, known for his prostrations
of thanks to all donors, it was only recently
discovered that he has donated every penny
he has collected — over 40,000 euros —
towards the restoration of decaying Bulgarian
monasteries and the utility bills of orphanages,
living instead off his monthly state pension of 80 euros.
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