![]() ![]() In Manila Hair Aid have local people that Hair Aid pays a stipend to every month to stay in contact with the trainees. Once Hair Aid teams’ leave they stay in contact with the trainees. Hair Aid has a connection with the largest hairdressing salon in Manila (David Salons) and they send staff to help us out during the training. ![]() These are previous trainees that know working salons over there, or running their own hair cutting business. Hair Aid employs previous trainees to come and work with them when Hair Aid teams are on the ground. At each location there will be between 15 and 20 people wanting to be trained. Hair Aid teams can work in up to six locations during a project. On each project there can be 20-24 hairdressers volunteering at one time. Hair Aid teams work in Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines. When you are fundraising to come on a project with Hair Aid it’s important to make sure you understand how Hair Aid operates so you can answer any questions from potential stakeholders. Joining a Hair Aid project is 100% volunteered based and each volunteer has to raise the funds to go. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” This is the philosophy that Hair Aid follows, and their goal is to “teach a person to cut hair, and they can create a pathway out of poverty.” “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Volunteer hairdressers teach a five-day hair-cutting programīeing able to earn money to buy food, to keep themselves and their children alive is an immediate, intense ripple effect that not only change their lives, but also their communities’ lives, their children’s lives - but more importantly it will empower them to stand on their own two feet to provide for themselves. The skill they have learned and the gifted tool kit can then be used to start a micro business and create an income to support themselves and their family. At the end of the training each trainee gets gifted a small tool kit, with a set of shears, 1 comb, 4 section clips, a cape and a water bottle. Volunteer hairdressers teach a five-day hair-cutting program, which gives the skill to cut five basic haircuts. The volunteer hairdressers work in teams directly with people living on the street, or slum communities, or with ladies rescued from the sex trade and prostitution gangs. Hair Aid recruits and sends volunteer hairdressers, from all around the world, to overseas locations to provide free hair cutting training for people living in critical poverty. They have no options to earn a living, get a job, or do any training to improve their lives.īut this is what Hair Aid does. Their lives are lived in critical poverty. Food is foraged from the bins and if they are lucky enough to be linked with an NGO or charity they might get a bag of food with 1kg of rice, 1 small bottle of oil, 1 small packet to powered milk and some herbs. The entry into their home is piles of rubbish, putrid water. They lie in beds with no mattresses, no walls, no windows They lie in beds with no mattresses, no pillows, no sheets, no walls, no windows their only protection from the sun can be a stolen tarpaulin, or vinyl sign. These people live in the most appalling conditions I have ever seen. takes volunteer hairdressers into developing countries to teach impoverished individuals how to cut hair Hair Aid Inc., founded by Selina Tomasich, is an amazing non-profit organization that takes volunteer hairdressers into developing countries to teach individuals rescued from sex trafficking, living in critical poverty and slum conditions how to cut hair. Why? Because I wanted to give back and I wanted to make the world a better place and I wanted to do it with the skill I have. I joined a team of hairdressers I’d never met before, to go to a country I’ve never been before Last month I joined a team of hairdressers I’d never met before, to go to a country I’ve never been before, to do things I’ve never done before. ![]() W hen Pablo Starr, editor-in-chief of Fashion Week Online asked me to share my story of my recent journey with Hair Aid, I reflected on my reasons why I joined, and the answer was: “What could I do with my skill?” ![]()
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