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Losing your hair can be a traumatic experience as nine-year-old Charlotte Jackson knows only too well.
Diagnosed with acute leukaemia just before her fourth birthday, Charlotte remembers when chemotherapy caused all her hair to fall out.
But the selfless Year 5 schoolgirl from West Moors Middle, whose long dark hair has grown back over the last four years, chose to do something with it for other leukaemia patients. She let her mother, Sarah, cut the majority of it off at a special assembly at school this morning (9 December), also attended by her grandmother Gill Jackson.
Charlotte, who is in remission, will donate all 11 inches of her hair to the Little Princess Trust, a charity that provides real hair wigs for children. She is also raising money for LEAF (Leukaemia Educating and Fundraising) a local charity that supported her during her treatment.
During the assembly, founder of LEAF, Natasha Hunt said. “Charlotte is a brave girl and by doing this she is helping other leukaemia patients in Dorset.”
Headteacher of West Moors Middle School, James Rielly added, “We already know Charlotte has hit her fundraising target of £500 and the school [PTFA] is donating £100. Pupils in year 5 are also holding cake sales to raise more money.”
Charlotte will have her hair styled into a bob at the hairdressers, following her ‘hair cut’ as Mum confessed that she wouldn’t do a very good job.
