Children donate hair to charity
Published: March 2, 2006
Inspiration often comes at unexpected times. Seven-year-old Audrey Peterson was looking through a magazine last year when she saw a picture of a girl who donated her hair to the Locks of Love program. That inspired the Rice Canyon Elementary second-grader to want to help as well.
She gathered friends at school and started a club. On Feb. 16, the culmination of their yearlong benevolence came as they headed to the hair salon. Barbers sheared 180 inches of hair from 15 girls —- a minimum of 12 inches from each girl —- which will be donated to Locks of Love.
The charity provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children suffering from long-term medical hair loss. The hairpieces are made from donated hair.
The girls in the Locks of Love Club at Rice Canyon would gather monthly for activities and fun. They also made and sold ponytail holders with proceeds going to the charity. The girls came from all grades in the kindergarten through fifth-grade campus.
The club was led by Gayle Brasga, the school’s nurse, whose daughter died of cancer after receiving a wig from Locks of Love.
By the time the club came to visit Fantastic Sam’s, Audrey’s hair was “to her bottom,” her mother, Becky Peterson said.
Fantastic Sam’s works with Locks of Love and the shop gave free haircuts, collected all the clippings and packaged it for donation.
Peterson is proud of her daughter.
“She’s a very compassionate girl,” Peterson said. “She was amazing. She came up with the whole idea for the club on her own.
And Audrey’s not done helping others.
“She already decided she wants to have a club to Jump Rope for the Heart,” Peterson said. That charity helps the American Heart Association.
A lot of the girls want to regrow their hair to donate again next year, Peterson said.
“I thought it would end here, but it’s been a lot of fun,” she said.
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