Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Beauty in Sierra Leone, a gift of pride.

Stevens, owner of Cole Stevens Salon & Day Spa in Greenbelt, Md., then learned about a hairdresser in Sierra Leone who worked all day standing on one leg. The other had been amputated.

"I told the stylists, 'We complain about little things, but she's trying to make her money, and she has one less limb than we do,' " Stevens says. "It stayed on my heart."

War helped drive up the country's unemployment. Men who had been the sole breadwinners for their families had been left unemployable by war injuries. Part of the answer, Stevens thought, was right around her.

Interesting read from USA Today. Read on...

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