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Ponytails of Love
INSPIRATIONAL GIRLS AND WOMEN, June 2008, by Sharon Stewart
Ponytails of Love
Hey everyone! I just wanted to thank you for all the wonderful things that you are doing. We ’re part of a great movement happening all over the world. Keep on giving and you’ll feel the great rewards that it returns to you. Here is a fabulous event that happened recently. Check it out. These girls ROCK!
~Sharon
Dear GCDA Magazine,
Hi, we are the girls who cut and donated our hair to ANGEL HAIR FOR KIDS.
It all started when we (Madeleine and Camille) had raised money for Sick Kids last year by running a lemonade stand. So we got invited to a celebration at the hospital called “Kids for Sick Kids” which acknowledged kids who had done things to help raise money for the hospital. While we were there, we met a girl who had donated her hair to make wigs for kids, and we thought it was a great idea. So we told our friend Caroline and we all decided to start growing our hair.
It took a long time to grow it long enough. They require a minimum of ten inches. Did you know that each wig uses about ten ponytails?!
Another friend of ours, became our manager since her hair wasn’t long enough to donate. She really got us ready and pushed with words of encouragement and support.
Madeleine came up with the idea that we should try to raise some pledges for our haircut and donate the money to cancer research. So we decided to send a letter and pledge form home in everyone’s knapsack from school. Our principal and teachers were all very supportive. They let us use the gym so we could get our hair cut in front of the whole school. Our parents got someone to come in and cut our hair, they invited someone from Sick Kids to come to our assembly, and helped out with the money. We even had a cameraman from CTV News come and film the event for the 6:00 news!
Our school is pretty small, but we managed to raise more than $4,000! For all of us to get together and cooperate for this great cause was amazing! We are so grateful for all the support and backing we had from everyone involved.
What it was really all about was the kids we cut our hair for. We all feel bad for the kids who go through cancer and miss out on a lot of the things we get to do. That’s why we did it, we believe that together we can make a difference!
Hair grows back, so having it shorter is only temporary. It was hard to get it cut though, it’s part of who we are, but others need it more than us. This was a really cool experience and we will never regret doing it. We are so glad that we did our part to help. Would we do it again? OF COURSE!! 
~ Camille, Caroline, Madeleine, Jordan.