A haircut might not seem like it could help a homeless person out. But let us look at it from a different angle, if our hair is not taken care of it creates a look that can keep us from working and other problems too. I can recall one time when my pack was homeless. I went into a store to buy items that we needed to survived on the streets. The greeter there had some very lose lips. He went on to describe a shaggy looking guy that was in there before me. Calling him a bum because of his hair being messed up. He was talking about my dad. I let him continued to hanged himself some more before mentioning that he was talking about my dad even though i wanted to chewed him out. I bit my tongue till i could not take anymore. When i told him that was my dad, he went silent on me. Not to mention i recorded the conversation too. I then went to speak to the owner of the store, I played the recording to the owner too. Explaining that my dad and myself have come here many times to shop and buy items. I went on to tell him i did not want the guy fired. I told him educating the guy would be a better option. I spoke to the owner for about a half hour. And we parted our way. He then gave me a gift card for 500 bucks and told me that he would educate the greeter and the rest of his workers too on being better people. I not going to mention the store name or the guy name either because the problem was handled very well. I used this story as a reference to how people can profiled other people they come into contact with other people. This is how a haircut can helped a homeless person too.
A simple thing like a haircut can make a person feel great about themselves. For one thing they have someone they can talk to for a little while. This blog post is about free haircuts for the homeless and the barber business is in Newport Ky too. I drive past his business everyday too. This is the first time i have heard anything about him too, but he made the news on channel 9. If he has a website i will post it in the blog also. The news article will be added to this blog also so you can checked it out.
Barber gives free haircuts to the homeless.
Very good point. This would help their self esteem at least.
ReplyDeleteYep and if you can keep people self esteem up, you can keep them going Sarah.
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