CHICAGO —  Sometimes it’s the darkest point in our lives from which the most beautiful things sprout up.  It is certainly true for a man known as Omar the Barber. 

Twice a month he takes his shop to the front doors of a shelter to set up for a slew of haircuts he’ll never get paid for.

His customers are in a place where he once was himself.

“My barber shop got crashed into. A car drove into my building,” he said.

The events that left him on the streets without work for months.

“I felt like you know, I had nothing. Cause that ‘s all I know how to do — is cut hair,” he said.

Cheryl Hamilton-Hill is the CEO of Lincoln Park Community Services.

 “They’re able to walk out in the community and look good, and we all know when we look good you feel good,” she said.

Since July, Omar has given 22 haircuts to men experiencing homelessness. 

The impact something as simple as a haircut can be big for those in his chair the days he shows up.

Staff at Lincoln Park Community Services said there has been a direct correlation between those haircuts and job offers for those residents as well.