Hello house, hurray!!! Christmas is here again!!!! Its that time of the year when we do a whole lot of merry making but as you prepare and plan for the holidays don't forget to include the less privileged around you. The Holy book stated that it is more blessed to give than to receive! Below is a list of rare acts of kindness and benevolence done by people you would ordinarily not expect to do so! This people sorta gave their "Widows mite" I hope one of these stories will motivate you to have a heart and show kindness to somebody this Christmas.


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(01) Eleven schoolgirls at a special needs school in
India got a special treat when they were given
new clothes by a generous donor. However,
what made this moment special was that the
donor wasn’t a rich man at all—it was a 64-
year-old beggar.
Khimjibhai Prajapati used to run a small tea
store until it folded and he was forced to beg on
the streets. However, that untoward event
hasn’t changed his views on life one bit, as he
has continued to help those more unfortunate
than himself. In fact, upon being interviewed
about the donation, he revealed that he had
wanted to give something to the girls for a long
time and kept saving money until he could buy
the clothes. A trustee of the school who
witnessed the donation heaped praises on
Prajapati and called him a genuine
philanthropist.

While this particular act of charity didn’t involve
money, it did involve the priceless act of saving
someone’s life. Folks at a truck stop in
Oklahoma had a doozy of a problem back in
October 2012, when a frantic couple pulled
over and asked for help. The woman had just
given birth to a baby with the umbilical cord
tied around its neck. The baby was
unresponsive, and the bystanders feared
emergency medical personnel wouldn’t make it
on time.
Fortunately, level-headed homeless man Gary
Wilson knew what to do. He took instructions
perfectly from a 911 dispatcher, unwrapping
the umbilical cord from the baby’s neck and
gently massaging its back. Medical personnel
who arrived at the scene later commended
Wilson in handling the situation calmly and
correctly. Though he had vanished the next
day, one employee of the truck stop noted that
Wilson looked like Jesus, “with the long hair and
beard.”

(03)Last year in October, middle-aged beggar
Simon Ozoemena saw how a recent flood
devastated the residents of the Anambra region
in Nigeria and decided to help out. Ozoemena,
who is also disabled, personally took $188 from
the alms he collected in various churches and
turned it over to government officials. They
were moved by his act of charity and promised
to use it wisely for the benefit of the victims.
When asked why he donated such a substantial
sum when he relied solely on begging to
survive, Ozoemena simply said, “They were
better off than me before the incident.

(04) When he was 18 years old, Wang Zhiyou
discovered that his real parents gave him to
another family because they were too poor to
raise him. At that point, he realized the
desperate situations in which the poor often
live, and started begging as a way to help
them.
His routine typically includes staying in a
particular locale and begging there for a
month. Afterward, he would contact the media
and ask them to find a needy person, to whom
Zhiyou would then hand over the monthly
proceeds. In his 15-year-long “career,” Zhiyou
has given away more than $6,000, according
to the receipts he collects from his
beneficiaries.

(05)Whoever has the notion that honesty doesn’t
exist anymore may have never heard of Billy
Ray Harris. In February 2013, the 55-year-old
homeless man from Kansas lucked out when a
woman accidentally dropped her engagement
ring—worth thousands of dollars—into his cup
as he was begging on the street. The woman
only realized her mistake some time later and
rushed off to meet Harris. She found him at the
same spot and asked him if he found her ring.
He said he did and proceeded to give the ring
back to the grateful woman, who then gave
him all the money she had on hand.
However, that reward was nothing compared to
the Internet fundraiser that the woman’s fiancé
put up for Harris. Netizens who heard his story
contributed to the fund, which soon ballooned
to more than $100,000. Harris later explained
that although he was tempted to sell the ring,
he knew that it wasn’t right and patiently
waited for the woman to return to him.

On her 100th birthday, an Indian widow named
Sindhubala Mishra decided to put her little plot
of land to good use and donated it as a site for
a children’s park and orphanage. Mishra, who
married when she was nine years old,
recounted how she was forced to live on the
streets after her husband died only two years
later. Her family and in-laws wouldn’t take her
in, so she begged for alms to stay alive. Over
time, she managed to save enough money to
buy her land.
Now, her only wish is that her donation give
homeless children a proper chance in life. Her
generosity has inspired other individuals and
groups to contribute funds and supplies for the
project, with some offering to build the
orphanage and park for free.

Curtis Jackson, a homeless man from Chicago,
saw his chance to repay kindness with kindness
in 2011 when he found out that a woman he
knew well had recently found herself jobless. At
the time that she met Jackson, the 39-year-old
single mother worked at a bank and owned a
house. After losing her job—and subsequently,
her house—she stayed in a hotel with her
young son after child welfare officers warned
her against living in her vehicle. When she
wondered how she would ever pay the hotel
bill, that’s when her savior appeared.
Remembering how kindly she’d always treated
him, Jackson would pay the bill every day with
the money he solicited around the city. He has
paid a total of $9,000 in bills, but doesn’t mind
one bit, remarking that as long as he has God,
it doesn’t matter if he has no money.

Aiam Cambhiranon could have very well just
kept the copious amounts of money he
acquired through 34 years of begging near a
Buddhist temple in Bangkok. Instead, 63-year-
old Cambhiranon displayed a heart of gold
unlike any other when he donated a total of
$76,000 in today’s dollars over a three-year
period towards the reconstruction of the
temple.
He first made a huge donation in 2011 and has
done so every year. The monks who ran the
temple were awed by Cambhiranon’s act of
kindness, and noted that he has remained
humble and self-effacing despite gaining a rock-
star status among the pilgrims there. The only
change in Cambhiranon’s life came when the
monks persuaded him to live in the temple
because he was being eyed by local robbers.
Volunteers have guarded Cambhiranon and the
temple daily ever since.

Being homeless hasn’t stopped Les Wesniewski
from lending a helping hand towards the less
fortunate. The man—who lives in a homeless
shelter in Mustard Seed, Calgary—decided to
help his neighbors out when a recent flood hit
their town in June 2013. Together with some
volunteers, Wesniewski went from house to
house everyday and assisted the homeowners
in cleaning up the debris from the flood.
Wesniewski later stated in an interview that he
didn’t mind volunteering and he was just
happy he could help. His fellow volunteers
added that Wesniewski’s actions have served as
an inspiration to them and the community.

Remember that biblical verse in which Jesus
said that the small donations given by the poor
mattered more than the large sums of money
given by the rich? This is one such example. In
April 2013, an unnamed Chinese beggar
walked up to a fundraiser for the victims of a
recent earthquake in his hometown and
donated $160. The man had collected the
money over two months and wanted to help
out his fellow citizens.
The story of his generosity has spread through
the Chinese Web, with one commenting “he is
the most beautiful beggar.” This wasn’t the
only act of kindness that the man performed—a
month earlier, there were reports that he also
gave money to a child suffering from leukemia.

Dobri Dobrev is well-known to many people in
his native homeland of Sofia, Bulgaria, where he
has been regularly begging on the streets for
decades. What many do not know however, is
that Dobrev doesn’t keep a single cent from the
proceeds. Instead, he uses the money to fix
various churches and monasteries and pay for
the upkeep of orphanages.
So far, he has donated over $52,000 while
living on a measly pension of about $100 a
month. Dobrev, who is nearly 100 years old and
lost his hearing in World War II.
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Wow it is good to be good either rich or poor this act of kindness is so rare

Ariyke: Wow it is good to be good either rich or poor this act of kindness is so rare

You can say that again! Truly rare.

Coldfeet: You can say that again! Truly rare.

I wonder why this didn't get to front page

Ariyke: I wonder why this didn't get to front page

It will someday! I'm hoping the Mods on this section will see to it soon.

Dis got me real emotional
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.Dis should av made FP SINCE!!!!!!

Ishilove, obinoscopy, front page please.

wow!

This is so nice. Its good to help.
If your plan is to be rich before you help, the wealth may not come, but if you help with the little you have, you get get fulfilled and sometimes get better favors


While serving in Calabar, a begger that do come to our corper's lodge once brought Onions for us when he came back from the North. We were all surprised.

OP, I forgot to take his picture

Beesluv:
This is so nice. Its good to help.
If your plan is to be rich before you help, the wealth may not come, but if you help with the little you have, you get get fulfilled and sometimes get better favors


While serving in Calabar, a begger that do come to our corper's lodge once brought Onions for us when he came back from the North. We were all surprised.

OP, I forgot to take his picture

You've told his story that's what matters! Nice one.

This thread is worth front page but I don't know what criteria is used for frontpagelizing a thread

Oga Seun and MODS, what criteria do you use

Someone once told me that as a Christian, you're meant to be rich and never suffer...but over time i've come to realise that the riches is not in the wealth you have but the happiness you bring to the lives of others around you each day

You learn to put others first before you, recognising that you're rich in Christ's love and grace...and even when others think you have nothing, you can't help but smile knowing that God's got you

You feel fulfilled and satisfied in every circumstance/situation

But in this present day, it's hard to see such acts...as people think more about themselves and their comfort. You can't see Christ in how they live or what they do

This Topic Touched me personally.

And why didn't this topic make frontpage??.