This season always seems to bring out the best in people, and a Vancouver man has an amazing story to share after an encounter with a homeless man asking for spare change.
Yogi Omar went to a cash machine near Hornby and Pender Streets this week, when he was approached by a man asking for spare change.
Omar says at first he said no, and walked away, but he returned to tell the man that he could help him if he wanted food, a coat or socks.
What happened next surprised him.
“Actually he said, ‘I’m not a homeless person, I do this every year with my family and it’s part of the Random Acts of Kindness Project,” says Omar.
The two men talked and the Secret Santa learned Omar’s dad is ill, and he suddenly needed to travel to China.
The pretend homeless man insisted on helping Omar, paying his rent next month.
“I couldn’t say anything else, but thank you. I was really stunned at the point,” says Omar.
There was another random act of kindness at a thrift store in Surrey this week.
A Secret Santa surreptitiously paid for all purchases for a one-hour period.
“Customers were astonished, they cried, they hugged,” says Donna Chubb of the Surrey Hospice Society. “Everyone in the store was amazed at the generosity of this man.”
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