Wella names uk hairdressers for making waves initiative

Wella Professionals and Unicef have selected two hairdressers from the UK to travel to Brazil to take part in a mentoring scheme, as part of the Wella-Unicef Making Waves partnership. Tom Wright, from Soul Hair in Chester, and Philip Bell, from Ishoka in Aberdeen, will be training and inspiring disadvantaged young people in Brazil and helping them to build careers in hairdressing. Together with life skills education, focused on personal and social development, hairdressing training and mentoring are key components of the Wella-Unicef Making Waves partnership.  This aims to support disadvantaged young people in Brazil to raise their aspirations, realise their potential and fulfil their rights. As part of the partnership, there will be a two-week mentoring scheme in October when Tom and Philip will travel to Rio de Janeiro to share their hairdressing passion and knowledge with a selected group of young people. Over three years, the partnership in Brazil aims to:

• Deliver life skills training to up to 7,500 adolescents
• Help young people follow a new career by offering them the possibility to follow professional hairdressing education in three new fully equipped hairdressing training centres
• Enable hairdressers from supporting countries to share their passion and knowledge with disadvantaged young people in the field for two weeks every year
• Help the newly trained students find opportunities to build hairdressing careers in their own country and increase their skills through Wella Professionals’ solid network and education programme

To find out more about Making Waves visit Facebook and show your support on the Wella International Facebook page or donate directly www.wella.com/wella-unicef