Local volunteers to go bald for St. Baldrick's Foundation
On Friday, March 18, the St. Baldrick's Foundation, a volunteer organization dedicated to raising money for children's cancer research, will host one of its signature head-shaving events at Anderson Elementary School, 35W071 Villa Marie Drive in St. Charles. Starting at 6 p.m., more than 50 students and adults will shave their heads in solidarity with kids with cancer and raise money for lifesaving research.
Every 3 minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer; one in five won't survive, and those who do often suffer long-term effects from treatments too harsh for their developing bodies. From its beginnings, St. Baldrick's has believed that kids deserve the chance to be kids - fun-loving, carefree, refreshingly honest, and a little goofy - and deserve the chance at a future. That's why donations raised at events like this have made it possible for St. Baldrick's to fund more than $178 million to support the development of childhood cancer treatments.
The "Anderson Gives Back" event will include a DJ, food and raffles. They are selling "Lucky Charms" for a $1 where you can write your name to show support. They also are working with Suzanne Denee Salon in St. Charles so you can get green hair extensions at the salon or at the event. All proceeds from hair extensions, head shaving, and "Lucky Charms" sales go directly to the St. Baldrick's Foundation. All proceeds from the raffle and food sale will be going to Ronald McDonald House at Central DuPage Hospital. They will be honoring one of the school's families, the Buckholz from Burlington. Riley Buckholz has brain and spine cancer which is stable at this time.
Over the last couple of years, they have had more than 200 people shave their head or volunteer for this event. "Anderson Gives Back" has raised more than $25,000 for these two great causes in the past.
As the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants, the St. Baldrick's Foundation believes that kids are special and deserve to be treated that way. St. Baldrick's funds are granted to some of the most brilliant childhood cancer research experts in the world and to innovative explorers who bring with them the promise of a future free from childhood cancers. Kids need treatments as unique as they are, and that starts with funding research just for them. Join us at StBaldricks.org to help support the best cancer treatments for kids. Look up Anderson Gives Back at www.stbaldricks.org if interested in volunteering or shaving.