My sister is awesome; give her cash.

[Nikose Tyris]

So, my little sister cuts her hair for cancer. She's been doing it since she was 10. We grew up in a family that volunteered it's time and money and effort to whatever organization we could; I suppose it's natural that a child raised in that enviroment would want to follow suit as quickly as possible?

Originally Posted by Hope

My name is Hope Robins. I am almost 13 years old. This will be the third time I have cut my hair for Cancer. I also make sure that the hair is donated to make wigs for kids who have lost their hair because they have cancer. I cut my hair the first time when I was 8 and I raised $1,100.00 in pledges, the second time I raised $2,700.00 and this year my goal is $5000.00. I would be honoured if you would help me. This year I am proudly supporting The Terry Fox Foundation in its ongoing work to fund innovative and progressive cancer research programs. I very much hope you will consider making a donation in support of my effort, confident in the knowledge that your kindness will impact the lives of so many people living with cancer.

My mom helped her write that. I think she should have done it herself, but people don't listen to ME.


Anyway I have this link here- http://my.e2rm.com/personalPage.aspx...ationID=920291 - That takes to her Terry Fox page. Take a look; Let me know if what she's doin' interests you, feel free to speak your mind on the kids efforts, hell, if you have spare change, feel free.

Previously, she'd intended to go for 10K, but decided her hair wasn't long enough to be worth collecting donations for yet; she's now down to about mid-back, and thinks it's time.

So yeah, there's a youtube video from way-back that i had posted here, but it's probably -long- gone. So, here's the news clip on my youtube account:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HlTR5jwTe8

and here's just a random clip of her singing at her school (She's been taking singing lessons for about a year, and she's remarkably confident, even in the face of a rather messy accident in the middle of her song):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUGNr4xsu_0

Edit: Oh shit I need a closer of some type for the thread, uh, crud.

TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS.

yeah that'll work.

Edit: Tagged it as 'serious' cause I'd kind of like it if people didn't step in and be all like "Cancer lol", cause, not cool. (why don't we have an 'awesome' tag?)

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

(why don't we have an 'awesome' tag?)

Because people would use it incorrectly because they are special snowflakes and of course their thread is awesome but in fact it is quite lame.

This thread, though? Totally awesome.

[Premmy]

Get to work on that Slater tag, then..

For seriouses though, totally awesome.

Your family sounds pretty kick-ass..... where did YOU come from?

edit:
Ya'll need to give that girl tons of ice-cream and pizza and shit.

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Premmy

Get to work on that Slater tag, then..

Because people would use it incorrectly because they are special snowflakes and of course their thread is awesome but in fact it is quite lame.

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[Hanuman]

That's pretty noble TBH! Personally I've always been more on the side of the burn wards need for hair. What would you want if it were you? Nice hair to cover up the fact you temporarily lost it due to cancer treatments, or nice hair to cover up you have disfiguring scars and now splotchy natural hair?

[Premmy]

Welp, there goes THIS thread

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Lev

What would you want if it were you? Nice hair to cover up the fact you temporarily lost it due to cancer treatments, or nice hair to cover up you have disfiguring scars and now splotchy natural hair?

Either?

I mean, I really don't see that question as anything that doesn't act as a lead in to the internet debate nobody wants to have so yeah, how about we don't go there?

[Premmy]

I kinda want to know what the process is for this, Do you grow the hair, and THEN donate it, do you pledge it before hand? If the latter, am I allowed to get a perm, or relaxer, or are their rules to how I can grow it? Can I go to the barber, get my hair cut, collect it, then show up with a big bag of scalp-grass?

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Premmy

I kinda want to know what the process is for this, Do you grow the hair, and THEN donate it, do you pledge it before hand? If the latter, am I allowed to get a perm, or relaxer, or are their rules to how I can grow it? Can I go to the barber, get my hair cut, collect it, then show up with a big bag of scalp-grass?

Basically it's just "Do you have long hair? Would you be willing to cut all of it off for a good cause?" without much else to worry about.

I honestly regret being as impulsive as I was when I cut off my hair years ago and not thinking to donate it.

[synkr0nized]

Originally Posted by Premmy

Can I go to the barber, get my hair cut, collect it, then show up with a big bag of scalp-grass?

Your hair needs to be of sufficient length so that they can cut the amount they would need to best produce a wig out of it. From what I recall, the places that collect hair for wigs usually want to be able to cut at least ten inches, so you'll need to grow it out quite a bit / be comfortable with a short head of hair when it is done. This length may vary across the organizations, though.

A friend and colleague of mine here recently cut hers for donation; her hair was only down to, say, her chin? Needless to say when we first saw her afterward it was quite a change -- I expect moreso than someone with hair down to his or her back going up to the neck or still below the ears.