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(IN PHOTO) A Syrian refugee boy carries a basket as he shops in a hypermarket with his mother after receiving their humanitarian aid shopping vouchers at al-Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, February 6, 2014. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Thursday opened of two hypermarkets inside the Zaatari camp that allowed camp residents to buy food of their choice using WFP food vouchers, and bring a sense of normal life to some 100,000 Syrian refugees. Reuters

In a display that there are still many Good Samaritans in the US, the kitchen of 81-year-old cancer patient Clarence Blackmon is now overflowing. Thanks to a 911 call he made on Tuesday, Blackmon won’t need to seek assistance any more for a few weeks to have someone buy him food at the grocery.

The octogenarian was released from a local hospital on Tuesday after undergoing cancer treatments for a few months. However, because his refrigerator was empty and he could not travel to the grocery because of his medical condition, Blackmon called 911.

“What I need is someone to get to the grocery store and bring me some food because I need something to eat, whatever you can do to help,” Fox quotes Blackmon’s request to the 911 operator. Marilyn Hinson, who answered the old man’s call, set the ball rolling by purchasing the food herself and delivering it to his house in Fayetville, North Carolina, with assistance from some cops.

Hinson said she went beyond her duty to pass on the request because she herself had experienced hunger. While she can stand the pangs of an empty stomach, “I cannot stand to see anybody go hungry,” she explains. Besides delivering the food, Hinson also made some ham sandwich for Blackmon.

After news of Blackmon’s unusual request spread, 911 got numerous calls and emails asking how they can help the old, sick man, shared Antoine Kincade, a police officer of Fayetville. And Blackmon, who says what Hinson did was like a miracle because it was an answered prayer, the extra donations that he won’t eat, he in turn will donate it to the Salvation Army so other hungry people would also have food.

The cancer patient said that people are bringing food by the armloads that his cupboard is overflowing that he estimates it would take him more than a year to eat by himself all the food donations he received, reports Youthhealthmag.com. “I never had such prosperity,” Blackmon gushed.

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