Seven-year-old Allie Wilson has cut her hair at her ballet school, to donate to Variety Australia.
After Allie’s father was diagnosed with stage two Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in 2016 and lost all of his hair during his intensive nine-month treatment, Allie and her mother, Kathleen Wilson, decided Allie would grow out her hair and donate it to Variety Australia in hopes that a child without hair would get the opportunity to have some hair of their own.
“Allie figured, if she chopped hers off, that it is going to grow back, and some little kid that doesn’t have hair can have some hair,” Mrs Wilson said.
To meet requirements, Allie had to be able to donate more than 35 centimetres of hair, and while it is a bit shorter than they had originally hoped and Allie was a bit nervous, she said she was ready to have it cut.
“I’ve waited too much,” Allie said
Allie and Mrs Wilson have also been baking and selling cookies through Allie’s ballet school to raise funds to donate along with her hair, to go towards cancer research.
“We’ve raised $1380 now. When we originally asked Allie what she thought we could donate, she thought she could raise $10, because when you are seven, $10 is a lot of money,” Mrs Wilson said.
“So then … we thought maybe $600. Then we got a bit more than $10. From today we have over $1300. Hopefully we’ll be able to donate some more.”
Mrs Wilson said she was grateful to Allie’s ballet school Gippsland Academy of Dance and for all the support their family had received.
The family is still accepting donations to go towards cancer research.
Donation can be made: Account name: K Wilson, account number: 12148861 BSB 313 140 or at the Gippsland Academy of Dance.
