One local charity has received a huge boost in helping those less fortunate.

Hair stylist Misty Wind & her Care Cuts group has received a $5000 grant from the Calgary Foundation for her efforts in building communities together.

She says everytime she or her group of volunteers helps out the homeless it gives her and those involved with it, gives them more satisfaction in making the world a better place.

"We do haircuts in a mobile hair studio downtown near the drop-in centre once every Sunday or every second Sunday depending on our schedules," she says. "We also do clothing donation drives as well we feed everybody and give coffees out."

The grant will go towards the expansion of Care Cuts which entails a new mobile bus instead of the van Wind originally started out with.

She hopes the new bus will serve more people in need.

"Really it's based on building community from the bottom up and bringing all sorts of different people at all points in time to engage in the practices of what we do including the clothing donation gathering, sorting and washing."

Wind says she couldn't have gotten to the place she is now with Care Cuts if it hadn't been for the volunteers by her side.

"Volunteers range from people who work regular jobs through the entire week to people who are on AHS or have addiction problems that they're dealing with themselves. So it gives our volunteers something to look up to at the end every single week to really just hold on and help others and feel like they have a purpose."

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