Briton honored with a street name in Albania

TIRANA, Jan 12 – Albanians know Norman Wisdom for his Pitkin role. But it seems they have fallen in love with another British hero.
Adrian Edgar has spent the best part of a decade working to help an impoverished town in south-eastern Albania.
The 68-year-old has helped deliver 25,000 shoeboxes of Christmas presents to children in Librazhd, where he has also raised money to donate sports equipment and computers to schools.
Now the mayor of the town has sent Edgar, of Western Way, Gosport, a letter saying that one of their main roads will be named after him.
The honor comes a few years after Edgar was made an honorary citizen of the town. He said: ‘I was very honored and most surprised to have the road named after me. I’ve just been trying to help in my own little way, because the country seems to have been completely forgotten by a lot of people. Nobody seems to be helping Albania because the attention has turned to other countries, but they still need so much help.”
Having a road named after you in Albania is a particular honor as most of the streets don’t have official names.
The Adrian Edgar Rrug련street) was previously unnamed.
Edgar started his charity work for Albania in 1999, when he was Rotary Great Britain and Ireland international chairman for our area.
After six years of heading up the shoebox campaign, Edgar changed roles with Rotary, but has continued to raise funds to help residents of the town.