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A young boy from Reddish has gone viral on TikTok after a stranger shared a video of him busking in the city centre. Alfie Shields, 11, wanted to raise money for the children of Ukraine.
So he hit the streets last Saturday, March 19, with a microphone and a sign. He sang his heart out and raised more than £350 for charity. He has since gone viral on the social media app.
The video was shared by the TikTok account @tuckers123 and has so far amassed more than 8.3 million views. The video has also been liked 2.1 million times and shared more than 30,000 times.
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Alfie is really proud of the money he has raised and intends to continue busking to raise even more.
He said: “I feel quite proud of myself, I’m just really proud of myself for what I did. I feel like the children just need help at the moment with what they’re going through and I wanted to do it for them to help them get new stuff like new clothes to help them live.
"I think it's important [to raise money] because it can like help people who need it and it provide funds and stuff that can help them."
Alfie’s uncle, Matthew Rees, said: “He was doing some busking in Manchester, to raise some money for the charity, to help the kids in Ukraine.
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“Some lady just recorded it and put it on her TikTok story. I won’t pretend I know too much about TikTok, and then it’s just gone a bit crazy.
“It’s cool, in the world that we live its quite nice. I just stand back in a quiet corner and you see people walk past, realise it’s an 11 year-old boy with one front tooth and they all just stop and smile.
“It’s quite a nice thing to watch, to be perfectly
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