Locks of Love and Relay for Life.
Both the Locks of Love and the Relay for Life are two organizations that I support. In the past 7 years I have donated my hair two times to the Locks of Love and support several Lancaster Relay for Life teams, including Susan's Squad (more on that later). So when I got a call asking if I would document three ladies cutting and donating their hair to the Locks of Love, I was on it! Locks of Love is (and I quote this from the website) "a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis."
Two of the woman cutting their hair are co-workers of mine (from that other job I have) and the third "little lady" is my all time favorite super model! When asked why she was donating her hair, "C" replied with an answer that made all of us tear up (I will have to link the video-total tear jerker). One of the funniest things of the night was how long it took to cut my co-worker Beth's hair-it was so thick. Beth started a Relay for Life team in 2001 after her close friend Susan lost her battle to Cancer. Susan's Squad raises money all year round by having yard sales and selling snacks and sodas to our office staff. Beth told me recently that Lancaster's Relay teams raised a total of $1,096,443 this year, placing our humble county 3rd in the nation. That is AMAZING!!!
Getting back to the Hair donating-at the end of the night 30 total inches were going to be donated! I am so happy that I got to be a part of that-here is a sneak peek...
The pictures look awesome. I can't wait to see the rest. Thank you so much for doing this for us! You rock!
Posted by: Hayley Thomas | October 25, 2007 at 03:41 PM
The pics are great. I can’t wait to see all of them. Thanks again for doing that for us. I know how busy your schedule is and it really means a lot to me that you would take the time to come over!
Posted by: Any Coleman | October 25, 2007 at 05:29 PM