YouTube personality Josh Paler Lin gave a homeless man named Thomas $100, then followed him with a hidden camera to see how he would spend it.

When he followed Thomas straight to the liquor store, he had his doubts.

But when he emerged, it was obvious that everything wasn’t quite as it seemed…

When Thomas emerged from the liquor store, he headed straight to the local park… where he proceeded to hand out food to other homeless people.

Stunned by what he was seeing, Josh ran over to talk to the man. What he heard next broke his heart.



After giving up his job to care for his sick parents, Thomas suffered a string of tragedies that left him helpless. First, his father died of cancer, and just two weeks later his mother passed away from kidney failure. With no one to pay the rent, their apartment was taken away from him, and he was left on the streets, where he’s been for 4 months.

Josh was so moved by the story that he handed the man another $100 on the spot. But he wanted to do more. So he created an Indiegogo campaign.

Thousands of people have already backed the campaign to support him. It has already quadrupled the $10,000 goal, totaling over $43,000 at the time of writing, and counting. (It’s gone up over $2000 just since we started writing this article!)

If you’d like to make a donation to support Thomas, you can do so by clicking here. Every dollar helps. You can also support Thomas by spreading his story – click like or share below to share this amazing story with your friends.

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