Hairdressing Training Lesson Gift (Digital download)
The hair is bought and will be used as part of our hairdressing sessions in the Interim Care Centre and at the mobile centre to teach children different ways to make income. We want to show them that there are other ways available to provide for themselves without resorting to begging or commercial sex work. We also pay for hair for the students at vocational school who are learning hairdressing. Its the perfect joke present for any bald men in your life or even a present for your hairdresser!
We will email you a digital version of the gift certificate and provide the gift to a child living, or formerly living, on the streets in Sierra Leone.
The hair is bought and will be used as part of our hairdressing sessions in the Interim Care Centre and at the mobile centre to teach children different ways to make income. We want to show them that there are other ways available to provide for themselves without resorting to begging or commercial sex work. We also pay for hair for the students at vocational school who are learning hairdressing. Its the perfect joke present for any bald men in your life or even a present for your hairdresser!
We will email you a digital version of the gift certificate and provide the gift to a child living, or formerly living, on the streets in Sierra Leone.
The hair is bought and will be used as part of our hairdressing sessions in the Interim Care Centre and at the mobile centre to teach children different ways to make income. We want to show them that there are other ways available to provide for themselves without resorting to begging or commercial sex work. We also pay for hair for the students at vocational school who are learning hairdressing. Its the perfect joke present for any bald men in your life or even a present for your hairdresser!
We will email you a digital version of the gift certificate and provide the gift to a child living, or formerly living, on the streets in Sierra Leone.
How your gift has helped Laughter Africa children in the past year:
We are super proud of 17 year old Mohamed. After living on the streets in the rubbish dump in Bomeh for over 4 years, we took him and his sister, Kadeja, home in June this year.
Mohamed and his sister both went to live on the streets after their aunt maltreated them. She didn't pay school for them and wouldn't give them food.
Mohamed did not have a safe time on the streets. He said, "On the streets, I became a member of the Blacks (a local gang). We would constantly fight the Reds (a rival gang). We would fight with bottles, sticks, stones, cutglass and chappers. My weapon of choice was a bottle and I would smash it over peoples' heads. One day, my friend OrCombeh went for a walk by himself and he was killed by a rival gang. They stabbed him to death. I would take different drugs on the streets including cocaine, kush, jamba, tramadol and tappa. I got in trouble with the police lots and I once even spent a week in a police cell."
We enrolled Mohamed at vocational school in September and he is now learning hairdressing. He said, "Since Laughter took me home, I have stopped taking drugs and being a member of any gang- that's all in my past now. If Laughter hadn't taken me home- I would be dead by now. I am proud of the life that I live now. Allah helped me and I have changed. I want better for my life. My mum and my sister motivate me to change. I want to make them proud of me. I changed everything when I left the streets behind. I am determined to make life better for me and my family.
Mohamed is very enthusiastic about his course and his future. He continued, "I love hairdressing. I have never seen another man plant or cut hair before. I am learning how to make different hairstyles, apply make up, how to do pedicures and manicures and how to attach eyelashes. My dream is to have my own salon and be a hairdresser for men and women."
Mohamed had a special message for Laughter supporters. He said,"Tenki for your help. Please keep helping us. Don’t give up on me. To change is not easy. But with Laughter by my side - I know that I can face whatever challenges might come. Thank you!"
We teach all the girls staying in the Interim Care Centre (ICC) hairdressing. The ICC is where the street children live while we find their families. It is the heartbeat of Laughter Africa – we couldn’t do our work without it. The ICC is refuge, a safe place for the street children to escape, to heal, to learn new skills and most of all let them be children again. It gives them a chance just to be…
Samuella came to the ICC in mid May 2024 and she absolutely loves hairdressing! She is 14. She lived on the streets in Bomeh for two years and five months. She said, “I lived with my mum and dad. However my mum died on 14th December 2021. I found out that my dad had a secret girlfriend. As soon as my mum died he moved her in to the house. She maltreated me. She lied about me to my dad that I was a thief. She said that I was a witch and that’s why I am skinny. My dad would beat me every time my step mama complained about me. That’s what made me go on the streets.”
Samuella was very skilled at hairdressing while in the Interim Care centre. Laughter reunified Samuella with her aunt in June 2024 and she is about to start SS1 later this year (which is the equivalent of year 12 in the UK).