Saturdays

 

 

 

Every Saturday at least 100 boys get their haircuts.  It takes a team of older boys and it takes hours and hours.  Notice in the top photo that the instrument to trim the hair is a razor blade attached to a comb.  Ah, appropriate technology.

Must be Saturday morning

One of our traditions is hair-cutting on Saturday morning. The above shots are of Rico Felix cutting the hair off another child's head with a razor blade. The hair gets washed and well lathered and it comes off quite easily (not always painlessly!). Shaving heads is one way of keeping parasites like ringworm at bay.

Did you ever wonder?

Ever wonder how Haitians keep their hair so nice and short when there's often no electricity? Well, now you know. In the top photo, Bertin is getting his hair cut the old-fashioned way. Jean-Renald, bottom, is getting his cut with the added safety feature of a fancy binder clip.