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Man transforms car into cab to buy breakfast for homeless

Tonight, at exactly nine, Aka Sinjikashvili kisses his daughter and wife goodbye. He gets out of the house, goes to his car, opens the door, puts a taxi sign on the roof and leaves.

It's a normal family scene. Nothing that any of the thousands of Tbilisi taxi drivers wouldn’t do. Except for one thing.

Sinjikashvili, a 29-year-old full-time TV comedy writer, will spend all the money he makes tonight to buy burgers and coffee for as many Tbilisi homeless as possible.

Photo source: Akaa Sinjikashvily/Facebook

This is the second night Sinjikashvili has turned into a cab driver to help late-night passengers get to their destinations. The money he makes is all spent on food for those in need.

"I happen to have a free night tonight. I’ve decided to get into the streets with a taxi sign, work for the whole night and in the morning buy some food for homeless people,” Sinjikashvili wrote on his Facebook page in a post that was liked by almost 1,000 users two days ago.

The young screenwriter who believed kindness was contagious said: "The ultimate goal of all of this is to make as many people as possible want to help others and no one to be hungry in this country some day.”

Photo source: Akaa Sinjikashvily/Facebook

His first night as a taxi driver turned out to be profitable. Sinjikashvili, who worked from 9pm to 6.30am made 67 GEL (about $30 USD/€ 26). With this money, he bought 36 burgers and distributed them among the sunflower seed sellers and other people near Tbilisi’s central station square.

The man shared his taxi-driving experience with his friends by posting pictures of himself together with his passengers on Facebook.

Photo source: Akaa Sinjikashvily/Facebook

The second night turned out even better. Users began sharing Sinjikashvili’s posts and some decided to contribute to his generous initiative.

"A total stranger, Lali Tordia, filled my tank with fuel. Kindness is really contagious; A real kindness epidemic had spread around me,” Sinjikashvili wrote on Facebook.

He then encouraged three other people to put taxi signs on their cars and join Sinjikashvili’s initiative.

"We’ve decided to sacrifice Saturday night drinking to offering coffee for yard-keepers this morning.”

Sinjikashvili wrote his mobile phone number and said people could even call him if they needed a taxi.

"The more active you will be the more yard-keeper will get a cup of coffee and burger in the morning,” he wrote.

As he kept posting selfies with his passengers tonight, it turned out his first passenger was Tamaz Mtchedlidze - a Georgian national rugby team member who became European Nations Cup champion tonight.

Photo source: Akaa Sinjikashvily/Facebook

Sinjikashvili said this was the second and final night of being a taxi-driver but he added he would continue thinking of different ideas of how to help those in need.

"Sadly, I will have no more free time any time soon but if several people got "infected” with this, others will get too. And in the meantime I will find some free time every now and then and will find some other jobs to serve the same idea,” he said.

As you read this, Sinjikashvili is driving a cab in Tbilisi streets, meaning a burger and warm cup of coffee is going to make someone very happy of tomorrow.