Kindness in society can initiate a chain reaction.

There’s a homeless man in NYC who was holding up a sign stating he was homeless, hungry, and his shoes were broken when a morning jogger was running by and noticed him.

The jogger to off his shoes and gave them to the homeless man.

A Twitter account based in New York posted a video about the kind-hearted encounter when other news outlets in the area picked up the story.

The homeless gentleman, identified as Joe Arroyo (30), shared with a NYC news source, “I never thought somebody would just come out and take their shoes off and just give them to me.”

Joe relayed the story during his interview, telling that the jogger said, “‘I’ve been blessed pretty much my whole life. God has been very nice to me. …Feels like I should bless you, too. Here, take my shoes.'” Continuing, “And, he took [his shoes] off and gave them to me. I was surprised. …It was something from the heart.”

A business owner in the area caught the news story on TV and wanted to step in and help Joe, too.

Andrew Zurica, owner of Hard Times Sundaes who started with a food truck and now owns three more eateries, knew a thing or two about hitting hard times and second chances at life — he’d been to prison for four years in the 90s for international drug trafficking before turning his life around and vowing to help others do the same.

The reformed-convict-turned-businessman found Joe and told him about a few different openings in his restaurants and offered him a position.

Of beginning to lose hope before the opportunity arose, Joe shared, “I was in a hold. I didn’t want nobody to pick me up out of the hole. I needed somebody to…just throw a ladder and I would climb out myself. This [is] the ladder. …This is more than a blessing right now.”

(MSN)