Your hair, if it meets some specifications, can mean a lot to a cancer patient
Suresh Raju after the haircut. (Photo: DC)
Hyderabad: The next time you go for a haircut, you could end up bringing a smile to a cancer patient somewhere across the country. Does that sound like wishful thinking or an idea that is a little too imaginative? Actually neither. Take a leaf out of Suresh Raju’s book and your next haircut might make a difference in the life of an ill person.
Remember Suresh, graduate in business management from London and founder of Vaada foundation whose ‘pink autos’ initiative took the city by storm? His innovative idea to make travel for women and children safe, became a huge hit when he hired a team of women to ride around town in auto rickshaws from 8 am to 6 pm.
Now, Suresh has another novel idea. His post on Facebook, which had over 600 likes, read: “I began growing my hair as a pledge towards the 100 km footpath in Hyderabad. Finally we made it. And I grew to love my hair in the last two years. But not as much as I love the cause I am now donating my hair for to make wigs for free for cancer patients. Feeling proud!!”
“My hair had been growing untamed and that’s why I have had an awkward hairstyle for some time,” he laughs. A social worker by profession, one of the reasons why Suresh donated his hair was because he read about actress Preity Zinta doing the same some years ago. “Also, I lost a few of my loved ones to cancer; it’s a painful ordeal and if a gesture as simple as donating your hair can make someone happy, then why not?”
Having looked long and hard enough, Suresh couldn’t find any organisation in the city who collect hair to be made into wigs. Thus, he settled for Hair Aid, an NGO located in Mumbai. When I went to the salon on Saturday for a haircut and asked the stylist for my hair back, he was surprised and then in awe after coming to know what I had planned to do with it. And that, right there, is how change can be brought among people,” he says.
( Source : dc )
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