Locks of Love lessons from fourth grader
Published: December 4, 2007
An act of giving grew in importance thanks to a Colorado Springs fourth grader. Maddie Werner courageously stood before St. Mary’s High School students telling why their service is so important.
The school’s been focusing on the theme of giving. According to Junior Libby Wigand, “We basically wanted kids to have the opportunity to give something for the sake of giving.” They decided to donate hair to the Locks of Love program which uses the hair to make wigs for kids who have lost their hair.
Before the cutting started Maddie stepped up and told the students her story. Almost two years ago her hair suddenly started falling out and was totally gone within two months. Doctors diagnosed Alopecia, which Maddie says is “a really big word for hair loss. It’s like somebody turned a switch and all my hair fell out.” This is her first time telling about the disorder in public. She matter-of-factly talks about wearing a wig and that it’s important to kids like her “so kids go out in public and they can actually have hair so they can just blend in and nobody goes up to them and asks them weird questions.” She says before she had a wig “sometimes kids would come up to me and say, ‘Do you have cancer?’ And I’m like no.”
Many of the high school students commented they learned a lot from a fourth grader.
Around thirty girls signed up to donate their hair. When the cutting started more than a dozen others came out of the bleachers to also donate.
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