More than £1,000 has been raised by pupils at Riddlesdown High School to cure leprosy.
Year 7 pupils had to sweat for the impressive sum when they had an aerobics workout on February 6 in aid of UK charity LEPRA.
LEPRA fund-raiser Jill Scholl has organised similar workouts at Croydon schools over the last few years and talked to Riddlesdown High pupils about the curable disease on January 27.
Leprosy affects those in the developing world and destroys the nerves in the hands, feet, and face, removing the afflicted
person's ability to move fingers and even eyelids.
Even minor injuries and burns can result in deformities, causing sufferers to be rejected by family and friends.
In 2001, 760,000 people around the globe were diagnosed with leprosy. But every £21 raised cures another person of the disease.
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