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For the students at Pawsperity, learning to clip dog hair is the key to finding economic stability. The nonprofit teaches pet grooming skills while also providing a net of social services to help people find their way until they can make their new trade a career.

In 2018, Ashley Stillings was living in Hope House, a homeless shelter in Lee’s Summit, with her three children.

In the Kansas City, Missouri area, like many places all over the country, there is a lot of generational poverty. Children are born into it and that is all they ever know.

This video introduces Pawsperity, formerly known as The Grooming Project.

Andis Creator Series | Pawsperity Pawsperity, an innovative Kansas City-based non-profit organization that harnesses the art of pet grooming to help break the cycle of poverty for struggling parents with nowhere to turn.