Mount Isa barber offering free haircut to local community

ABC NEWS (Australia)

With pressure on the purse from skyrocketing daily expenses, many Aussies are doing it tough. But armed with scissors and a comb one Fijian ex-pat is offering free haircuts to people in need and bringing a bit a joy to his newfound community.

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00:00 Meet the barbers battling the cost of living crisis with kindness and conversation.

00:07 Offering free services for a haircut, some people see it as really crazy.

00:13 Why would we offer this kind of services?

00:17 We have bills to pay.

00:19 When 26-year-old Enole Maafu moved to Mount Isa 12 months ago, he set up a side hustle

00:24 as a barber.

00:25 Back in Fiji, the cost of a haircut would just be around from $5 to $10.

00:31 But here it's very demanding and it's very expensive.

00:35 Now he's stopped accepting payment, throwing open his books every week and says this change

00:40 goes deeper than a free fresh fade.

00:43 Facing depression, anxiety and all sorts of kind of mental health, offering this kind

00:51 of services, having that conversation of a haircut, it's more like a therapy.

00:57 He's challenging you to do the same.

00:59 It takes zero dollars, zero cents to show love and to care for someone.

01:05 Whatever you have, maybe you wouldn't be a barber, maybe you bake, you sing songs, you

01:12 make people laugh, you light up the room with joy.

01:15 That is something that you could share to the community.

01:19 From mullets to mindfulness.

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