Help a Cancer Patient!!!

Your hair is your CONFIDENCE! 

Help a cancer patient RESTORE that CONFIDENCE!

All of us have hearbout donations, whether it is materialistic donations (money, food, clothes...) or blood and organ donations. But few of us have heard about hair donations. Well this is a new way to help cancer patients. If you want to do a good deed but don't have the time to spare to commit to volunteer work, donating hair for cancer victims could be the solution. It won't take up all your time on the weekends, but it's still a way to show that you care. In Lebanon, the Children Cancer Center, accepts hair donations to weave them into wigs, that are free of charge for kids that have lost their hair during the process of fighting cancer and that cannot afford a wig themselves. These wigs are professionally done, at well known places. Hair donations have to be of a minimum length of 10 cm, as long as the longest lock is 10cm. It can be coloured, permed, or bleached, as long as it is at least 10 cm. First you have to wash it well with shampoo. Then comb it to make sure that you have the required length, using a rubber band, measure the length you want to cut off. You just have to tie it in a pony tail(securely). Then cut it above the rubber band. This way the cut hair is secured with a rubber band. Then let it dry. You can either send it to the Children Cancer Center personally, or it could be sent via Aramex (also free of charge).

You might not be able to donate money, but you can donate your hair. Hair grows out. So you are not really losing anything. Hair cells grow an average speed of 1.25 centimeters or 0.5 inches per month, being about 15 centimeters or 6 inches per year. So there you go, in a matter of a year you will have the length of your regular hair. Why not do it? Why not help some kid in need.

When a person loses their hair due to cancer, they sometimes feel they've lost their identity. What results is a lack of self-esteem and lowered spirits. Isn't it nice to know you can help combat those feelings to some degree in a patient? That's why donating hair for cancer victims is so beautiful. It doesn't just give them hair - it gives them confidence. Donating hair to create a natural looking wig will also allow patients to go on with their lives without waving a big "I'm sick" to the rest of the world...To you it is just hair, that eventually will grow. But to them it is the confidence, it is the strength, power and the will to fight, to defeat cancer. Help a kid restore that smile that they lost because of their sickness and weeks they spent in the hospital.  Help a kid restore the confidence- that they are not any different from the rest of the world. Last but not least, help a kid be strong!!

DONATE YOUR HAIR!! AND YOU WILL FEEL GREAT ABOUT HELPING OTHERS!!