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A Beauty School for Former Sex Trade Victims
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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New York City-based salon owner Michael Angelo has long been
privy to the beauty industry's inescapable image-driven, superficial
depths. It's why he has set glamour aside in the interest of putting his
hair-know-how to good use through a partnership with the Somaly Mam
Foundation. The project, as chronicled Monday by Daily Beast alum
Abigail Pesta on New York magazine's The Cut blog, has Angelo teaching
the foundation's small army of sex slave rehabilitees the skillsets of a
proper hairdresser-equipping the girls with a potential channel of
income in the outside world.
Angelo first travelled to Cambodian
capital Phnom Penh in 2006 to meet with the foundation's founder Somaly
Mam (a former sex trade victim herself), to discuss the ways in which he
could help. "She asked me: 'Do you know how to make a haircut?'" he
told The Cut. It's then that he began his work, teaching the tricks of
the beauty trade to Mam's cycling roster of sex trade victims, many of
which she has personally rescued straight from brothels. And their
relationship has continued--a trip back to Phenom Penh late last month
was Angelo's third. "Some of the girls had never held a pair of
scissors," he said of his most recent experience, in which Angelo
instructed 29 young women in how to cut hair and apply makeup.
The
program is operated out of a self-sustaining salon run by former sex
slave Neang Hok with the help of other survivors. It's there, with their
cooperation, that Mam runs her urban workshops, supplemented with
classes in the rural town Siem Reap where Mam is building her own salon
to accommodate the growing program. Angelo says that the work he does
with Mam is incredibly fulfilling. He says: "The things I learn there
are so much bigger than what I teach."
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