Christmas has come early for a Bangladeshi cleaner who was mocked online for looking at gold chains in a shop window.

Internet trolls ridiculed Nazer al-Islam Abdul Karim after a picture of him looking wistfully into the window of a jewellery shop in Saudi Arabia was posted on Instagram.

However, he has since been showered with gifts – including items from the jewellery shop – after internet users, appalled by the derogatory comments, started a campaign to find him.

So far the 65-year-old has received money, bags of rice and honey, return tickets to his home country as well as two smartphones, an iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy. And the donations continue to pour in.