Charity touches lives and brings good karma to the givers.

When three primary school boys in Guangzhou, China, went to a local convenience store on 12 August and learned that its owner was closing shop due to poor sales, they pooled their money — 10.5 yuan — and gave it to him.

As they left, the boys told Chen to “hang in there,” a gesture that brought him to tears, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

The moment was captured by the store’s surveillance camera, and the video was subsequently uploaded by Chen, quickly going viral online.

Touched by the boys’ kindness, customers began patronizing Chen’s store, and sales gradually picked up. The landlord also reduced Chen’s 5,500 yuan monthly rent by 1,000 yuan.

On 17 August, Chen treated the three boys to KFC, went fishing with them, and gave each a traditional red envelope containing cash in gratitude for their help, SCMP reported.

As suggested by the boys, he has begun live-streaming and selling products online to keep his business running.

Meanwhile, a father in Hefei, Anhui province, bought his child an egg pancake on 17 August and, in a note, asked the vendor not to include shredded kelp or lettuce because the boy was undergoing chemotherapy for leukemia.

The compassionate vendor, Wang Xianhuang, prepared the takeout order, adding two complimentary cups of soy milk and tucking 100 yuan in cash inside the package, SCMP reported. The money was for the treatment of the boy named Haolin.

Haolin’s father, surnamed Zhu, was profoundly moved by the stranger’s compassion for a sick child and subsequently shared the story online.

After the story went viral, customers from all over China began flocking to the 33-year-old vendor’s stall, while online orders soared. Shu Zhizhong, founder of the egg pancake brand under which Wang operates, said he would grant Wang a cash reward, SCMP reported.

On 22 August, Wang visited Haolin in the hospital and donated all of his recent stall earnings, along with a sum from the media, totaling 8,100 yuan, to the boy’s family, according to SCMP.

Shu also donated 2,000 yuan to the family.