A woman in her 80s in Singapore pulled $20 out of her purse and gave it to the founder of a social enterprise that provides jobs for people with disabilities, the BBC reports.
Koh Seng Choon, founder of Dignity Kitchen, says he was almost moved by the act.
"I saw only a few notes in her purse, $20 is like $200 to her," he tells the Straits Times.
"I told her I could not accept her donation.
I told her I could not accept her donation.
She insisted and dropped the money into a Pay-It-Forward box before telling him in Hokkien: 'You have been giving us a meal unconditionally over the years.'Kindness begets kindness."
Koh says he plans to use the money to train 20 dementia patients and cancer patients to work at a food stall selling bento boxes. Read the Entire Article
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