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As Lithuania is drafting plans how to integrate refugees from the Middle East that the country has agreed to accept, with some expressing doubts about opportunities for them to find jobs in the relatively closed and ethnically homogeneous country, there is one business in Vilnius that exclusively employs foreigners, many of them refugees from the Middle East.
Barbershop in Vilnius that prefers to employ refugees
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Kazimieras Norkus, the director of the barbershop "Barzdaskučiai" (which means "barbers" in Lithuanian), says that his employment practices did not follow any humanitarian consideration. Simply when he was hiring, he discovered that almost no one in Lithuania knew the trade of grooming beards.

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