A homeless man in Brazil was reunited with his household immediately after his photograph went viral on the net. In an incident that illustrates the energy of social media, Joao Coelho Guimaraes met his mother and sister immediately after a decade of living on the streets. His household had assumed he was dead, but recognised him when his photograph was posted on Instagram by a businessman named Alessandro Lobo, who owns a men’s style shop and barber service, according to Unilad.
The incident unfolded when Mr Lobo asked Mr Guimaraes if he was hungry and presented him meals.
While Mr Guimaraes turned down the offer you of meals, he did request a razor to trim his overgrown beard.
Alessandro Lobo went a step additional and groomed his beard, hair and moustache. He also gifted Mr Guimaraes with new garments. “That was when we decided to help him in a different way, providing a day of beauty for him,” Mr Lobo told nearby news outlets.
The businessman took ‘before and after’ photographs to capture the transformation and shared them on Instagram.
His posts detailing the adjust brought about by a very simple haircut and grooming session went viral on social media, exactly where they had been noticed by Mr Guimaraes’s household.
Mr Guimaraes’s sister and mother had not heard from him in a decade. They had assumed he was dead, but realised he was alive and nicely immediately after seeing his photographs surface on the net.
On December 17, they travelled to the city of Goiania to meet him.
“It is Christmas time and the intention was to show that with a little we can change someone’s life… We did not imagine that it would have this result,” mentioned Mr Lobo of the heartwarming reunion tale.