Angel Hair for Kids

Kids Cancer Care’s Shave Your Lid for a Kid program supports the Angle Hair for Kids program. When our shavees and hair donors donate their hair we recommend donating to this amazing foundation. Read below to learn more about the foundation, hair donation and wigs for kids! Please note Kids Cancer Care does not accept hair donations. Please contact or send your hair donation to Angle Hair for Kids.

Every year Canadian children suffer hair loss due to a variety of causes including such things as cancer treatments or burns.  In order to help these children build their confidence, a program called Angel Hair for Kids was created. 

Angel Hair for Kids is a program that was created by A Child’s Voice Foundation, which was founded in 1995. A Child’s Voice Foundation is a Canadian charity that helps change the lives of financially disadvantaged children across Canada.  The two main programs that the charity provides are Kids Life Line, and Angel Hair for Kids. 

Angel Hair for Kids is a particularly unique program because it helps disadvantaged children in Canada that have lost their hair because of medical conditions or treatments, with both wigs and solutions to hair loss.  This particular program was created to help improve a child’s self-esteem and self-image while the child undergoes difficult and strenuous times.

In order for A Child’s Voice Foundation to manufacture one wig, it will take approximately 10-12 donated ponytails from people who have generously donated their hair. Kids Cancer Care encourages shavees to donate their hair if it is at least 12 inches in length, clean, dry, and free of chemical treatments to Angel Hair for Kids. 

KCC strongly believe in donating your hair to A Child’s Voice Foundation because the Angel Hair for Kids program directly benefits children living within Canada.  This means, that Kids Cancer Care and A Child’s Voice Foundation are keeping the funds raised, and the hair donated, within the country.  This allows children within our own nation to receive the help and support they deserve!

For more information on the Angel Hair for Kids program please visit: http://www.acvf.ca/index.php/our-programs/angel-hair-for-kids/

Learn more about Shave Your Lid for a Kid or sign up to donate your hair:

http://www.kidscancercare.ab.ca/shave_your_lid_for_a_kid.htm

KIDS CAN make a difference!

When Kids Cancer Care first arrived at Good Shepard School to meet Sydney we were impressed by her confidence and mesmerized by her cuteness. Not only has Sydney made the brave decision to cut off her pony tail once, but now twice! Sydney is proof that KIDS CAN make a difference.  Written by her mom, this is her story.

 “Sydney Grenkow, who is just turning 7 in December of 2011, cut her 11 ½  braid off at Good Shepherd School on November 29, 2011.  Her grade two teacher was the one who officially cut the braid off in front of all of her peers in the school gymnasium.  Her teacher was quoted saying “She is an exceptional little girl.  We have all been touched by cancer in some way and having someone so small set such a good example for the other students at the school is really quite amazing.”  

This is the second time she has given back for the fight against cancer.  She did the same act of kindness when she was in Kindergarten as well.  The hair goes to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program where they make wigs for cancer patients.  Along with the donation of her hair, we raised money for the Kids Cancer Care through the Shave a Lid for a Kid program. Sydney’s motivation comes from both of her Grandparents surviving cancer.

As parents, this has been one of the most proud moments we’ve had.  She plans on doing this all over again once her hair grows back.  Her hair grows quite fast so this same event will probably take place when she is in Grade 4.   What amazes me about Sydney cutting her hair for cancer awareness is how humble she is about her kindness.  She doesn’t boost about it or talk about it unless asked.   That is the very essence of giving, selflessly from the heart with no self-gratification but the feeling of doing something kind for someone else.  She inspires us all including me, her Mom. ”

-Candace Grenkow

The Shave Your Lid for a Kid program not only features individuals’ shaving their heads but also brave individuals’ undergoing drastic haircuts to donate their hair towards making wigs. Kids Cancer Care works with Angle Hair for Kids. To learn more please visit: http://www.acvf.ca/index.php/our-programs/angel-hair-for-kids/

To sign up to “cut your hair for a kid” please register here: https://secure.csfm.com/kidscancer/shaveyourlidforakid/register/index.php