Hamo, 18, is providing open-air haircuts to his household and others displaced by the catastrophe.
Scholar Mohammed al-Hamo, who discovered to chop hair to earn cash in his spare time, by no means imagined he would put his abilities to make use of in a tent camp for Turkey-Syria earthquake survivors,
Following the devastation brought on by the February 6 earthquakes that destroyed swaths of southeastern Turkey and northern Syria, 18-year-old Hamo is providing open-air haircuts to his household and people displaced By the catastrophe.
“If anybody comes he’ll for positive give them a haircut,” stated his father Khaled with a proud smile as he waited for his flip within the barber’s chair.
Hamo first gave his brother a fade, rigorously utilizing a cut-throat razor to sculpt 19-year-old Sobhi’s hairline.
“I had not managed to recuperate my tools till now,” stated Hamo who had efficiently retrieved electrical clippers, combs, scissors and shampoo from the wreckage of his destroyed residence.
Whereas the household nonetheless has kin lacking following the earthquake that killed greater than 46,000 individuals, their quick household escaped unharmed.
Khaled stated that, past free haircuts, his two eldest sons had been volunteering to assist others within the camp in a park within the southeastern Turkish metropolis of Antakya.
‘We hold transferring’
“Our ethical code tells us to assist individuals, so my sons do that … we do not wait for somebody to inform us,” stated Khaled, of the pair who had helped clear the camp and labored with an support company.
Thousands and thousands throughout the area have been made homeless by the earthquake, with many pressured into tented camps with restricted sanitation or entry to electrical energy and healthcare.
As Hamo dusted down his brother and ready to present his father a haircut and shave, his mom swept up hair close by.
“It feels good to do good issues to assist others. I by no means imagined I might do that after I discovered to chop hair as I simply did it for cash to assist the household,” he stated.
He then reworked his father’s look, threading his eyebrows, tidying up his already quick hair and leaving him clean-shaven.
“Even in these tough circumstances, we hold transferring,” Khaled stated, his household’s garments hanging to dry on a washing line behind him.
Hamo stated he was getting ready to go to school quickly however would switch to an establishment within the Turkish capital Ankara due to injury performed to universities within the earthquake-hit area.
The household moved to Antakya in 2014 from Aleppo in Syria, fleeing their nation’s brutal civil battle for Turkey like almost 4 million of their compatriots.
“I began cleansing in a barber store after which discovered to chop hair from there,” he stated as youngsters performed with a ball close by and tea brewed on a range outdoors their tent. “I desire utilizing scissors reasonably than electrical shavers, it reveals how expert a hairdresser is.”
