Facebook user Robert Chua, shared a poignant post about an elderly, 93-year-old man selling ice-cream outside Sim Lim Tower to make a living, and only earns a few dollars a day.
The elderly man, known only as Ah Boon, was apparently abandoned by his children and has nowhere to go but to work every day.
Chua added that Ah Boon starts work every day at about 8am, selling ice-cream and only stops in the afternoon at about 3 to 5pm when he is tired.
Here is what he said
SO SAD. Visited Ice Cream Seller a 93 years old Ah Boon a poor old man abandoned by his five children and is alone! He starts work 8am each morning till he is tired and retire in the afternoon 3-5pm depending on the weather and his health.
Can you imagine being abandoned by your children and have nowhere to go but work daily like Ah Boon under the sun and heat ? …. and make only a few dollars each day and more often losses because of the cost of Dry Ice that will turn from solid to gas each day.
When I got there at 9.15am with Larry Lai he was already there looking loss staring into the air without any motion.
Please do stopby if you are around his place at 10 Jln Besar Sim Lim Tower to try cheer him up and buy his ice cream at a generous donation price. Pay with generous $ note and let him keep the change.
Be generous and donate what you might have treated your friends to a lunch or drinks in a restaurant. It is heartbreaking and sad to see one struggling without children’s love and looking lifeless without a reason to live. He has nothing in life to enjoy but perhaps his pack of cigarettes each day.