Para Hills girl Ebony Callery, 8, gives her strawberry-blonde locks away to make wigs for people with cancer
EBONY Callery is saying goodbye to 15 inches (about 40cm) of her long strawberry-blonde hair to help women fighting cancer.
The brave eight year old will get the chop at East Para Primary School on Friday (August 22) and donate it to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths campaign.
“It helps women with cancer ... they make it into wigs and I’m happy I can help,” the Year-2 student says.
Her mum, Emma, says the Pantene initiative is close the family’s heart having helped Mrs Callery’s aunty Sandra Turtur, who died of lung cancer at 50.
“I don’t think Ebony realises the big deal this is and what it means to people,” Mrs Callery says.
“She saw her hair short in a picture and thought she still looked pretty, so she wanted to give
her hair to someone else so they could look pretty too.”
Ebony, who has been growing her hair for five years, is also donating about $1000 to Pantene.
About 10,000 ponytails have been donated to the campaign since it began in 2012.