Sisters’ hair cut to raise money for hospital ward

Their long locks may have vanished but they have disappeared for a good cause.

For sisters Hannah and Miriam Thomas lost 14cms of their hair in a bid to raise money to help fund an ECG machine on the hospital ward where their mother Asha Rajan works.

The sisters, who live in Bury St Edmunds with their mother, ward manager on the F8 renal ward at the West Suffolk Hospital, father Boni Easow and younger sister Leah, four, raised a total of £726.26 after they were persuaded to lose their locks by Asha.

The St Edmunds Catholic Primary School pupils said farewell to their long hair at home following a visit by their hairdresser on July 20.

And it has been donated to the Little Princess Trust to help them make wigs for children who need them.

Asha is trying to raise a total of £6,500 for the new machine and persuaded her two older children to lose their hair for the cause.

Boni said: “They both had 14cms cut off in a bid to raise the money for Asha’s ward to help buy the ECG machine.”

F8 currently has to borrow one to use and the money raised by the two children will help towards purchasing an ECG.

Hannah, 10, said: “My hair is now up to my shoulders and we did it so that we can get the new machine in my mum’s ward.

“I was a bit nervous having it cut and I did not want it to be too short but it’s okay.”

And her seven-year-old sister added: “I wanted to do it for my mum.”

They said that their mother works really hard caring for her patients and this machine would really help them.

Sally Daniels, fundraising manager, went along to cheer the girls on as they lost their locks and said “The girls were very brave and the money they raised is just amazing. As a charity we are here to add the extras and, even though the ward has access to an ECG machine, if we can provide a new one for their ward it would help a lot.”

 

Main photo, Hannah and Miriam Thomas

 

Written by Russell Cook for My WiSH Charity