Radio Islam International – 2019/02/26

Instead of letting loose change go to waste on the streets, a 77-year-old Korean man has collected hundreds of dollars’ worth of coins left on city sidewalks.

Over the course of the last 12 years, Young S. New has taken regular strolls through the west end of Montreal so he can search for abandoned Canadian currency.

In addition to his walks proving to be a great source of exercise, New has also donated every cent of his recovered treasure to those in need.

New says he simply gives all of the money to older homeless people who he sees on the street.

“It’s not my money. I just found it on the street.”

New says he was inspired to start searching for loose change on the streets because of something his father used to say to him: every cent counts because if a person is one cent short of a million dollars, they are still not a millionaire.

“That is what I learned from my father in Korea when I was young: respect the penny.”