PlastiScope21 - November-December 2015

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What is it About...The Spirit of Giving?
A Most Unusual Gift
Covering Young Heads To Heal Young Hearts
If you have a strong desire to volunteer, but your life is just too busy for a
monthly or weekly time commitment, Judy Frier (Main Office Janitor) has
a suggestion. Children with Hair Loss might be the perfect fit for you.
“I wanted to get involved with a charity,” Judy said, “but between running my
cleaning business, Sweeping Beauty, and working at Plenco in the evenings,
I just didn’t have the time.”
The idea of donating her hair occurred to her on October 8, 2013, her
birthday. Seeing a pile of her hair lying on Cost Cutters’ floor after a trim,
Judy thought, if there’s that much hair after a trim, imagine how much there
would be after a year or two!
And so it began. She started the long, slow process of growing the
minimum of eight inches of hair required for donation. “All it cost me was a lot
of extra shampoo and conditioner,” Judy told PlastiScope21 .
Children with Hair Loss was created as a resource for all children who have
medically related hair loss with the goal of improving their outlook and
empowering them with a degree of self-confidence that allows them to face
the world with renewed self-esteem.
When asked if she was nervous when the day to have it cut finally rolled
around, Judy said, “No way! I couldn’t wait to have it cut; it was like wearing a
stocking cap all the time.” That day was October 8, 2015 exactly two years and
ten inches since her last haircut!
Judy’s stylist had everything needed to collect and donate the hair to
Children with Hair Loss. “If your salon doesn’t have a kit,” Judy explained,
“you can order one off of their Web site, and they’ll mail it to you.”
Now sporting a brand-new, short hairdo, Judy is unsure if she would do
it again, but said she would be happy to donate her large bag of assorted
clips, ties, and scrunchies to anyone wishing to try growing out their hair for
donation.
CWHL began in September 2000. Research showed no other organizations
were giving human hair replacements to children at no cost. CWHL’s mission
and goals were never to charge a family at a time when they needed the
most help. After years of intense fund raising, CWHL purchased its rst
building in 2005 in South Rockwood, Michigan, an old renovated re
station. Originally, CWHL’s focus was on children ghting cancer, until it
learned there were many other reasons children lost hair including alopecia,
burns, trichotillomania and other rare diseases and disorders.
Children with Hair Loss has never charged a child. It provides a customized
human hair replacement and care kit to more than 300 children a year.
Visit:
Top: Judy Frier makes her hair
contribution October 2015;
Bottom: Judy’s stylist prepares
her hair for donation.
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