Sunday feature: Sidewalk barber in Manila sees opportunity amid Covid-19 pandemic


MANILA (Xinhua): A 44-year-old sidewalk barber plying his trade on foot in the Philippine capital has been gifted with new equipment after his story went viral on social media.

Every day, barring heavy rain, Joseph Dante, equipped with a pair of ordinary scissors and a broken motorcycle side-mirror, gave haircuts as he walked the 4.2-km route from his home at Baseco compound, a former dockyard near Manila's port which was turned into a squatter resettlement area in the 1970s, to Kalaw Avenue near Rizal Park in the capital's entertainment district.

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Monthly Plan

RM 13.90/month

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Annual Plan

RM 12.33/month

RM 8.02/month

Billed as RM 96.20 for the 1st year, RM 148 thereafter.

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