The Barber Who Gets Kids Reading With Free Haircuts
We always love to hear inspirational stories of people giving back to their local community. Here is one such example. Meet Courtney Holmes. Courtney is a barber in Dubuque, Iowa that has been giving free haircuts to children in his local community in exchange that they read books to him. The story is is gradually going viral and is generating a lot of press for the community who are helping families prepare for the upcoming school year.
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Brazil has the biggest black African diaspora outside of Africa. Now, when it comes to children’s media there is very little reflection of this fact. As we are based in Nigeria we didn’t really have any idea just how bad the situation was. That is until we were approached by several English speaking Brazilian fans of Bino & Fino asking if there was a Portuguese version of the show.
2015 was a really awesome year. We discovered some really great things that are helping to nurture young minds. After a lot of thinking we've compiled our favorite 5 posts of 2015.
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Here is a neat list of stores that do African themed greeting cards for you to check out.