LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) -The boxes of Huggies and Pampers are piled high next to Sam Dov’s barber chair. He jokes that whenever a new batch arrives, stacking them feels like playing Jenga.
Since mid-May, Dov, who works at Faded Barbershop in north Lincoln, has been swapping haircuts for donations of diapers and baby wipes. The process is simple: Bring in $40 worth before the end of June and get two haircuts in exchange. Dov said the goal is to collect $10,000 worth — or about 250 donations. He estimates that, as of mid-June, he’d collected about 50 boxes.
Dov is a father of two. But these baby products aren’t for his kids. Instead, he’s collecting them in collaboration with local nonprofit Lincoln Littles, which plans to distribute the diapers and wipes to childcare providers and families across the city. The goal? To make things a little easier for Lincoln parents already grappling with the high cost and limited availability of childcare…