Leeds shopkeeper gives away food to 'struggling' customers who can't even afford bread
Shahid Gohar made his mind up in 10 minutes whether he’d take over his friend's shop in Harehills Lane.
Shahid is originally from Pakistan. He moved to the UK in 2008 and worked his way up in a restaurant for many years, starting out as a kitchen porter and eventually becoming a chef, before turning his back on the industry and becoming a trusty shopkeeper.You can now find him behind the counter of the eponymously named Gohar Discount Shop, working tirelessly from 9am to 7pm every day, excluding Islamic prayer times, to support his wife and three children, aged eight, ten and 12.
Shahid says many in Harehills don’t have jobs and visit his shop in desperate need of essential items like milk, bread, biscuits, tins of beans or chickpeas and fish but can’t afford them. He says most of the time, he’ll let them have what they need for free as it pains him to see people struggling. “There’s lots of people who struggle here. They have no jobs. They come in asking for jobs and I have no jobs to give them. Or they have no food. It makes me feel so bad. No one ever steals things, just little children sometimes.”
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