Students and teachers shave heads to fight cancer

Daily Herald Report

On Friday, March 11, approximately 20 students and teachers will shave their heads to help conquer kids’ cancer.

The Conquer Kids Cancer event will be held at Kenyon Woods Middle School, 1515 Raymond St., South Elgin, with an estimated attendance of 1,150 students and staff. The head-shavings will commence at 2:30 p.m. Additional money will be raised by a raffle of gift cards and other merchandise donated by the Kenyon Woods PTO.

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising money to fund the most promising research to find cures for childhood cancers and give survivors long and healthy lives, has issued a lofty challenge to everyone who wants to help raise money for pediatric cancer research: Be a hero for kids with cancer by shaving your head in return for pledges of financial support from friends and family.

Participants find that shaving their head in solidarity with the approximately 160,000 children who are diagnosed with cancer each year and frequently lose their hair as a result of treatment, is a small sacrifice in comparison to what these children endure.

The St. Baldrick’s Foundation makes grants to research institutions to find new cures for childhood cancer, and to find treatments to ensure a better quality of life for patients and survivors.

The Foundation funds research projects conducted by established pediatric cancer experts.

For more information about St. Baldrick’s, call (888) 899-BALD or visit StBaldricks.org.