LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Las Vegas Raiders teamed up with barbershops and hair salons to supply free haircuts and hairstyling to kids as they put together to return to the classroom in a couple of week.
Elijah Molina sat within the barber chair, and like all college students enrolled within the Clark County Faculty District, he shall be again in school on Monday, Aug. 11. Molina has aspirations of taking part in skilled soccer, however stated he’s easing into it, opting to play flag soccer as a substitute.
“I don’t really want to do tackle yet because my friend, he had a bunch of concussions already, so I don’t want to get that far yet,” Molina, 11, stated.
However these are goals of his future. Sunday morning, he is having fun with a free haircut courtesy of the Raiders.
“I’m really thankful for it because like haircuts, they cost a lot of money right now,” Molina stated.
Faculty provides are one other factor that prices some huge cash proper now. To present households a leg up, the Raiders additionally gave provides at Sunday’s back-to-school occasion, which occurred on the Experience Barber Program positioned in North Las Vegas. It is a part of the staff’s week-long effort to offer again to the neighborhood.
“Like pencils, sharpeners. Some markers and some crayons and like a notebook,” 7-year-old McKenzie Dewitt stated.
The youngsters being handled to haircare and faculty provides are from the Nevada Youth Community, Pearson Neighborhood Heart, and Doolittle Neighborhood Heart.
“You got to have one of those fresh duds. Fresh cut. Man, you know, fresh backpack. It’s like major points. It actually sets the tempo for the year,” Louis Burton, a barber who volunteered on Sunday, stated.
A number of Raider gamers, together with newly signed Quarterback Geno Smith, had been available to greet the kids and supply them with phrases of knowledge.
“Create your own story and leave your own legacy, that’s what I would tell them. Just to be yourself, and just to spread that joy and be able to empower the community around you,” Raiders Linebacker Amari Gainer stated.
A few of the Raiders may see themselves within the kids, who’re desperate to succeed and hold on to every participant’s phrase.
“The kids run the world,” Raiders Linebacker Devin White stated. “If you get them off to a great start, it just sets them up for a great future.”
Setting them up for achievement is what the Las Vegas Raiders are doing, main in Southern Nevada by instance.
