Young girl shaves head for friend with cancer
People shaving their heads to raise money for cancer research is nothing new, it’s been a campaign that has lived under many names for years.
But when an 11-year-old girl decides she wants to shave her head to raise money with no campaign to follow, only to support her friend who has cancer, that is a type of maturity and bravery not seen in many children or even some adults.
So when Madison Simpson approached her mother Jackie Gareau about shaving her head to raise money for her friend with cancer, her mother was surprised to say the least.
“I was really surprised,” Gareau said. “I almost had to talk her through it, you will have absolutely no hair, but she said that’s okay, you always told me it would grow back. I just thought ‘oh my gosh maybe I am doing something right.’”