From trauma to healing on Skid Row with Shirley Raines
Shirley Raines didn’t let COVID-19 slow down Beauty 2 The Streetz. Through her nonprofit, Raines brings much-needed warmth, humanity, comfort, and even fun to the unhoused population in downtown LA.
When social distancing meant hair and beauty treatments would be impossible, Raines recalibrated and did what she could, offering food, masks, and – crucially – public health information to a community otherwise abandoned by the government.
And btw, the self-proclaimed “hood stylist” just won CNN’s 2021 Hero of the Year award for her weekly service of LA…
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