VATICAN CITY, – The Vatican says it has finished renovations on public restrooms just off St Peter’s Square that will include three showers and a free barber shop for the city’s neediest.
Each “homeless pilgrim,” as the Vatican called the clients, will receive a kit including a towel, change of underwear, soap, deodorant, toothpaste, razor and shaving cream.
The showers will be open every day except Wednesday, when the piazza is full for the Pope’s general audience.
Haircuts will be available today.
Barbers volunteering on their days off — Rome’s barber shops are closed on Mondays — as well as students from a local beauty school will be donating their time, as well as some sisters from religious orders and other volunteers.
The bathrooms were made with high-tech, easy-to-clean materials to ensure proper hygiene, the Vatican said in a statement. The walls are grey, with white washbasins and a high-tech looking barber chair.
