Student donates to Locks of Love

DOVER PLAINS — Eleven-year-old Webutuck student Jennette Coburn donated her hair to Locks of Love on Saturday, June 11. She had 10 inches of her waist-length strawberry-blond hair cut off at Mane Tamers in Dover Plains that day — something she had been looking forward to for a while.Jennette recently participated in the Webutuck Math-a-thon. Before the event began, Jennette said she and her fellow classmates watched a video about St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which the math-a-thon would benefit.She said that when she saw the kids without hair in the video, she was inspired to donate hers.Jennette’s grandmother, Yvonne Coburn, said, “This is her [Jennette’s] first time donating. My daughter has done it twice and that’s got her wanting to do it.”Jennette planned on getting roughly 10 inches of hair cut off for the donation. Besides being easier to manage during the summer heat, she said that the best part about donating was knowing that someone else would get to have hair too.Locks of Love is a nonprofit organization that gives wigs and hair pieces to financially disadvantaged children under the age of 21 who are suffering from long-term medical hair loss. According to its website, the hair prostheses given to the young patients “helps restore their self-esteem and their confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.”The organization accepts hair donations of a minimum 10 inches. All other requirements for donations can be found on its website, www.locksoflove.org.The organization estimates that 80 percent of all donations come from children wanting to help other children.

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