Cobar Public School (CPS) student Sienna Campbell will have her head shaved tomor-row as part of the World’s Greatest Shave fundraiser.
“I have decided to shave my hair so I can raise awareness and help people with blood cancer,” the 11 year old told The Cobar Week-ly.
Sienna’s mum, Courtney said Sienna’s grandparents on both sides of their family have had leukemia while Sienna’s nan was also diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019.
As a result of her nan’s chemotherapy treat-ment, she lost her hair.
Courtney said Sienna is “super excited” about shaving her hair to help people like her grandparents, but also a bit nervous.
She is however very excited about being able to help others by raising money and also donat-ing her hair to a sustainable salon to have a wig made (that will help others who have lost their hair to chemotherapy).
Sienna’s school mates are supporting her and last week CPS held a Crazy Hair Day which raised $235.
Sienna’s goal was to reach $3,000 and as of lunch time yesterday, she had exceeded that and her total at the time of going to print was $3,025.30
Her locks get the chop tomorrow afternoon at Olivia’s Hair Lounge and by tomorrow night Sienna will be sporting a very short No 2 or No 3 hairstyle.
Anyone wanting to support Sienna with a donation, can head to her World’s Greatest Shave fundraising page.
