Fly from your hometown to the country where your project is based. Saturday or Sunday prior to the project commencing: Arrive in the country where the project is based. Get collected by the Hair Aid transportation team from the airport. Get transported to the Hair Aid accommodation location.

** Meet up with the Project leader and all other volunteers. Visit the local shopping centre and purchase breakfast and lunch requirements for the week. Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant. In the afternoon, when the entire team has arrived, be allocated into your location groups. Meet the local community managers and hear from them all about the location you will be attending that week and the trainees that you will be working with.

Help sort out the resources needed for the training and pack individual project location packs ready for starting the next day. Take part in a cultural training session before reviewing the 5-day training program. Change into your official Hair Aid team uniform for a group photoshoot.

Change into casual clothes for dinner, which will be at a local restaurant. Return to the Hair Aid accommodation and prepare for your first day of training. 

** Transportation from the airport to the Hair Aid accommodation location is provided for everybody on Saturday and Sunday prior to the project commencing.  Volunteers that have arrived prior to Saturday, and completing private travel, will need to arrange their own transport to the Hair Aid accommodation location. The Project Leader will help you with this.

Awake, shower, and eat breakfast. Team members need to dress in the official Hair Aid team uniform. Everyone needs to be ready to depart the location by 7:30 am, with a backpack that contains; lunch, snacks, bottled water, sunscreen, mozzie repellent, personal medical kit, phone chargers, hygiene wipes, and mask. 

Transport will be arranged by the project leader and will be ready to leave by 7.45 am from the accommodation. Join your other team members that are going to the same location as you, enjoy the local transportation and the views and scenery on your way to your location. At the location, you will be met by the Community Managers. They will introduce you to any local government members, and your translator. You will then be taken to the training area. You will set up all the tools and resources ready for training. Your trainees will arrive by 8 to 8:30 am. 

Your Hair Aid lead volunteer will introduce the Hair Aid team to the trainees. Training will begin at approximately 9 am. There will be a lunch break to allow the trainees to attend to any family duties they may have before the afternoon session commences. At lunch, you will be offered local restaurant choices, or you can eat your own lunch that you have brought in your backpack. 

Some locations provide lunch for the Hair Aid team. It is easy to arrange a small tour to be conducted through your training location during the lunch break so that you can get out and see the local area where your trainees live, work, and play. Once the afternoon session has been completed, training is finished for the day. All resources are packed up and brought back to the Hair Aid accommodation. The Hair Aid team will be transported back from the location to the hotel accommodation. 

After showering and changing into casual clothes, a debrief of the entire team will commence. We will hear from all teams about what happened in their day, what experiences they had, and how the training went. You will get to his share your experiences with the entire team. After debriefing as a group, we all go out for dinner at a local restaurant, each night is a different location to provide you with new experiences. After dinner volunteers are able to enjoy some free time, either shopping, getting massages or sharing some drinks and stories with the Hair Aid team back at the accommodation. 

Once again awake, shower, and eat breakfast. Once you are dressed in your team uniform you will gather at the taxi meeting point at the accommodation. Your transportation will be arranged and waiting for you. Once your entire team for your location is gathered, you will all be taken to the training location, enjoying the sights and sounds as you travel through the community. The training will begin at 9 am, break for lunch, and finish by 3 pm. 

Your transport will be waiting for you to bring you back to the Hair Aid accommodation. After a quick break and shower, dress in casual clothes for the daily debriefing. At tonight’s debriefing, you will all be offered an opportunity to change locations the next day, or on Thursday**. This gives you an opportunity to see a different location other than your own. Once the debriefing is finished dinner options are available.

 Two choices are available tonight. The first choice is attending a cooking class with a renowned local chef. You will learn how to create local dishes, and these will be eaten after the cooking session has finished. Meet and greet local chefs in this experience and learn how to cook some of the beautiful local food. This option has an additional charge which needs to be paid for. individually. 

The 2^nd choice is to head out to a local restaurant and enjoy some of the cultural experiences of dinner and dance.

today is a repeat of Tuesday, everybody will leave their accommodation by 7.45 am. Remember, half of the team will be changing locations today. Teams will travel to their accommodation in groups, ready to commence the day. 

Training will begin at 9 am and finish by 3 pm. Today, instead of returning to the accommodation, the entire team will be going directly to a local orphanage, and we will be providing free haircuts for the children until 6 pm.

Teams will travel directly to the orphanage from their training location. After we finish at the orphanage, we will return to the accommodation where we will shower, change, and prepare to head out for dinner at a local restaurant.

** Changing locations gives you an opportunity to see and experience the diversity of the country and the trainees we work with. Every person will be given an opportunity to change locations once.  The changes will be announced at the debriefing.

for those that didn’t change locations yesterday, you will be going to a new location today. Begin your day with a shower, get dressed in the official team uniform, have breakfast and be prepared to leave by 7:45 am. Today is a big day at training because some of the trainees may be catching up on their haircuts to have their training cards signed off in anticipation of the graduation day tomorrow.

Your Hair Aid lead volunteer will be ensuring that every trainee has every possibility of completing all the cuts so that everyone can graduate. Before training finishes today we will need to inform the trainees of the graduation day itinerary. It is a very important day for them, dress in their finest clothes and bring their families along to witness their success.

Once training has finished today, it is straight back to the accommodation for a shower and debriefs. Tonight, we eat dinner at the accommodation.  All locations will need to write out all the trainees names on their certificates ready for graduation tomorrow. In addition to this, we have graduation gift packs to be handed out and these need to be packaged and allocated to each team.

today is celebration day. We commence as we always do, by being dressed in our team uniform, eating breakfast, and getting ready to leave at 7:45 am today the training usually finishes at noon. After a quick lunch break, we set up for the graduation celebration. Every location has a Hair Aid graduation celebration cake. We decorate the area as best we can, set out the scissor kits and certificates, and await the return of the trainees after lunch. Every location will have a different graduation ceremony. 

The local community managers will attend, and any government officials in the area also may attend. It is a great opportunity for photos.  It is an incredibly emotional day as well. You will see the faces of your trainees, that you have trained, and the smiles and the tears show you what learning the skill of haircutting means to them. The graduation normally finishes by 3 pm, when we ask you to once again return to the accommodation. There we will begin our final debrief, and share some of the celebration stories of your trainees. 

The project officially ends at 5 pm Friday.  Everybody is provided accommodation on Friday night, however, some volunteers need to fly out Friday, and so we begin our farewells.  Some people leave the accommodation on Friday night and travel to another location, to do a couple of days private travel, before returning to their home country.

For these people, we will also say farewell. Some people will stay the Friday night and leave the accommodation to either do some private travel, or return to the airport to fly home. Everyone who is leaving directly from the accommodation to the airport will be provided transportation. For those that are ongoing to their own private travels, personal transportation needs to be arranged by you. Your project Leader can help you with this.

 Those that are staying Friday night will head out for celebrations at a local restaurant and then afterwards at some evening entertainment venues.

for those that are still at the accommodation, anyone returning directly to the airport for their flight home your transportation will be arranged for you. 

For those moving on for some private travel, we will farewell you at this point. The Project Leader will leave mid-morning Saturday for their own flight home.