Doing Good with Charity?

In my class How to Be a Good Person, I asked the audience to tell me what they can do in their daily lives to be a good person

One person said, don't do harm.  Another say, don't cheat. One say, do charity.  I asked him what is charity.  He said usually it means to donate money. 

I told him charity means helping people when they need help.  It could be money or other things but not necessarily donation of money.  If they don't that help, that is NOT charity.  It is just your act of service.  

I also told him that if he donates money, make sure that the beneficiary really needs the money.  If not, that donation is of little value to the beneficiary and is not really charity.  It is just for you to claim 2.5 times tax deduction.  There is almost no merit accumulated by you.  

He asked, what can I do?  I told him, do charity in your daily work.  Being a Grab driver, I told him if you provide sincere heart-to-heart service, that is already a big charity.  If you are not calculative and go the extra mile to help your passengers, that is also charity.  Most of all, if you can bring joy to people when they take your car, you are doing a big charity. 

He could not believe what I told him and said, "That is not what I was taught!".  "That's why you must attend my class, I teach you the real stuff that is not commonly practiced elsewhere".