Singapore — A 27-year-old who came across an elderly and disabled man decided to help, and the two eventually found friendship in each other.

TikTok user @fyxxn94, Muhammad Alfian Abdul Ramlan Alfian, posted a video of himself helping a disabled uncle in a wheelchair near Admiralty MRT station last month.

In what turned out to be a heartwarming video, Mr Alfian starts off by describing the old man as “barely pushing his wheelchair” because of a swollen leg. He also added that the elderly man’s wheelchair was full of items.

Upon trying to communicate with the man, one Mr Kassim Ramli, Mr Alfian realised that the former was mute. Trying to communicate, Mr Alfian learned that Mr Kassim wanted to buy bread and needed someone to help wheel him home. Documenting the process in a TikTok video, Mr Alfian wrote that Mr Kassim’s block was quite “a distance a way (sic) for him actually, can’t imagine the pain [in] his leg without anyone assisting”.

When the pair reached Mr Kassim’s flat, Mr Alfian called out in case anyone was there. However, no one answered, and Mr Alfian said that the house was a mess.

Mr Alfian later found out that Mr Kassim suffered a stroke as a result of a robbery in 1999 that left him mute and wheelchair-bound. He had managed to get by over the past few years because he had foreign workers who were renting rooms in his flat. They stayed with him and helped to take care of him and the flat. But all three were no longer with him as they went back to their home country.

Mr Kassim did not let Mr Alfian leave at first and was trying to communicate with him by writing on a piece of paper. Mr Kassim also asked Mr Alfian how to send a message in case he ever needed help.

Just before Mr Alfian left, Mr Kassim gave him some of the bread he had bought and teared up with gratitude.

On his TikTok channel, Mr Alfian documented subsequent visits to Mr Kassim’s house, even starting a fundraising campaign for the latter. The Singapore Association of the Deaf also donated a care package to Mr Kassim after it found out about the case.

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