Project Feel Good

Project Feel Good is a community initiative founded by Craig Smith and his salon team at Fruition, in Brisbane.

In 2012, Craig was called upon as one of the country’s leading hairdressers to work with the SOS Children’s Villages in Vietnam to teach adolescent orphans the trade of hair. The aim of this was providing them with crucial education which would allow them to learn a trade to create job opportunities and stability on leaving the village. The people he met, the students he taught, all changed him. As he left, he promised to go back and personally help these incredible students further through his social responsibility initiative ‘Project Feel Good’.

Craig was, and continues to be, astounded at the technical skill that some of these students have shown, not to mention the complete dedication to education;

“On my first trip I was blown away by the openness and appreciation for this very simple thing I was doing. For me, this is more important than donating money, it’s about giving them the chance to support themselves for a lifetime... the chance to ‘feel good’. To return to Vietnam and see the progress my past students have made in their salons is always truly humbling.”

Craig travels to Vietnam every 6 months to check in on previous students with whom he still keeps in touch, as well as work with new students and, build a network of salon owners across the country who support the cause. Together with Thu Hang Tran Salon in Ho Chi Minh City, he arranges a special 2-day ‘Look and Learn’ training seminar and practical class to teach the new eager pupils the basics of hairdressing, teach new skills to the past students, as well as educate salon owners from across the country.

To do so, we need your help! We need money and supplies, in the way of scissors and headlocks and, as Project Feel Good is non-demoninational, we don't care where the help comes from!

Thank you so much, as you can see from the YouTube link, produced by a local news network in Ho Chi Minh City. Any help is greatly appreciated and, will go a long way!