Last but far from least was Alfred! Alfred was to get a shower, he was number 38. Alfred is thirteen and severely mentally handicapped, and didn't want a bath and doesn't understand a water sprayer, and that's the way we give baths. It took several of us plus mama to complete the shower, but It was done. This was the second time so it was a little easier.
After the rather traumatic shower, Alfred's mother wanted him to have a haircut and Alfred had plenty of hair!
Marison is our barber. She is good and keeps clipping for hours, the boys love the way she cuts hair. Her two clippers are hot! Now enter Alfred and his mother and another experience for poor Alfred; a haircut. Things were going rather well until the clippers got clogged and made a terrible screeching noise which flipped Edgar out, now it was a three person haircut. For thirteen Edgar is strong! Every so often the screeching would start again and Edgar would gain strength ... while we laid hands on his head. About five minutes and four screeches later Edgar had his butch haircut! He looked back at the haircutters with disgust as his mother pulled him away.
A haircut doesn't seem like much, it's only about 36 pesos or about $2; but when the family's priorities are food, school and transportation ... haircuts become few and far between. Thanks Marison!
In our four neighborhoods we are appreciated by the hundreds. Thanks for making our ministry among the really poor possible.
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