Our team was grateful for the opportunity to work with Caroline Enos, Globe Correspondent at the Boston Globe for the piece titled, “Cutting your hair at home amid coronavirus? Those locks could help a child cancer patient in need.”
From the piece:
“Don’t know what to do with your hair while salons stay closed? Grow it out for children in need and donate the locks to the nonprofits that support them.
‘Donating hair is absolutely a life changing experience,” said Jeffrey Paul, founder of Wigs for Kids. “I know it’s not life and death, but it could be life and death to a child’s personality and self-esteem.’
Wigs for Kids is a Ohio-based nonprofit that gives free handmade wigs to children who have lost their hair from cancer treatments or other health issues. But since the start of the pandemic, online monetary donations for the nonprofit are down 40 percent and hair donations have fallen 25 percent below weekly average.”
Date: September 30, 2023 Time: 6:00 pm Location: Bryan & Brent’s Place 229 N. River Rd. Weston, WV This event is being hosted in memory of a young woman who passed from cancer. The barber assisting with the event is Kenny Holden, the owner of Tatted Trimmer. There will be a pulled pork dinner, raffles, music and the […]
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Join owner Carrie Kendall at the Wigging Out Boutique fundraiser for Wigs for Kids. Twenty percent of all wigs purchased and $20 from each consultation during the month of September will be donated to Wigs for Kids. Date: September 30, 2023 Time: Month of September Location: 12 S. Dorset Rd., Ste. C Troy, OH
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Hair stylists , community partners, and hair donors join forces to positively impact children’s lives. Erinn Lampert from Mario’s Hairstyling & Barber, and a Hair Donation Specialist for Wigs for Kids organized and co-hosted a Cut-A-Thon and fundraiser along with Saint Ambrose Parish in Brunswick, OH. Thanks to their efforts 10 individuals donated their hair, […]
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