If you have long hair, know someone with long hair about to cut it, want to grow long hair, or have a pony tail put away from childhood that is at least 10 inches long, think about donating your hair to Locks of Love.
To quote their site:
“Locks of Love is 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.”
This is getting to the kids who need it the most, the ones with “long-term medical hair loss”.
Is your hair gray? So, what. They sell that and use the money toward the expenses.
Over fifty percent of their donors are children that want to help other children.
That says two things to me:
1. There are children out there who care deeply about other kids. (Hooray!!)
2. Adults could be offering their hair more often.
It grows back! Mine did, I donated it in 2003. And I plan on doing it again, sooner than later. I wish I had started years before.
NOTE: Please don’t assume that ALL hairdressers know about it. I met several who didn’t.