Hubert Williams doesn’t make a lot of money transporting goods for market vendors or shoppers on his handcart in Brown’s Town, St Ann. However, that has not prevented him from donating food to people living at the St Ann Infirmary each Sunday.

Williams, who is married with four children, has been engaged in this philanthropic venture for the past two years.

The food he donates is either reaped from his small farm or, more often, purchased with money he earns from his handcart business.

“I am not an educated person, but that doesn’t matter,” Williams told the Jamaica Observer. “I am a Christian and mi give mi life to the Lord. What I am doing is ministry. God put it in my heart to give. Whatever I am doing is to glorify God.”

Williams, who is more popularly known as Neville, said he was moved to start donating to the infirmary when he went there to visit his brother-in-law.

“Mi go and mi see the situation and see the need. I start out by visiting the sick at the infirmary, and then I start to bring some biscuits. Sometimes I have to feed some of the patients them who can’t manage,” said Williams, who worships at Brown’s Town Baptist Church.

Biscuits soon gave way to ground provisions, some of which he would acquire in exchange for his handcart service.

“I come out from about three o’clock Saturday morning and carry some people from the hills. I don’t take any money from some of them. Instead, I take food stuff. Sometimes I buy banana — two or three bunch of banana — and carry down there,” he said.

Reiterating that what he does is ministry, Williams said that during his Sunday evening visits to the infirmary, he uses the opportunity to tell people about the Lord and pray for them.

He admitted that there are some Sundays when he doesn’t have any food to take to the infirmary, but that doesn’t stop him from visiting. However, he tries, as much as possible, to take at least one box of food with him.

Williams told the Sunday Observer that when he actually started he would take two boxes of food. However, due to transportation challenges he now carries one.

His generosity has inspired other people to give him food and clothes to donate to the infirmary, while others, like Councillor Kim Brown Lawrence (Brown’s Town Division), are simply amazed at Williams’ willingness to give despite his personal circumstances.

“He is doing a wonderful job; he is doing something out of nothing. He only pushes the handcart, but he is doing a marvellous job,” Brown Lawrence said.

Williams, who said he previously sold juice in Brown’s Town before starting to operate his handcart is resolute that he will continue giving to the infirmary.

“As long as mi have the strength can go, I will continue. Any time I can’t make it, is just that way,” he said.