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Local lady shaves lid for cancer |
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Credit: Tess Lenihan
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
[Tess says "Please sponsor me as I participate in Funrazor. All money raised goes to the Child Cancer Foundation." You can do this by clicking the link at the end of this article.]
 Heathcote Valley resident Tess Lenihan is a lady with a mission. While the guys will be growing their moustaches for Movember, Tess has decided to go in a totally different direction and shave her lid for a brave kid! For Tess, this means she will be shaving all her lovely, long mop of brown hair right off on Thursday, 4 December in Cathedral Square at 5 pm.
The Child Cancer Foundation Funrazor will be held at 22 locations around New Zealand on 4 December 2008. Tess, along with hundreds of others, will be using the event to raise money for support and services for children and families affected by childhood cancer. Tess says "I'm passionate about the cause and willing to lose my locks to prove it!"
Every year on average 150 Kiwi kids are diagnosed with cancer, which means that there are lots of children and families requiring special support and assistance. The Child Cancer Foundation believes that no child suffering from cancer, or their family, should ever feel alone.
It's clearly all in a very good cause and Tess has good reason to feel strongly about it. "It seems just about everyone that I talk to these days has cancer or knows someone with it. I lost an uncle only this year to bowel cancer and another uncle six years ago to leukemia. My 'Aunty' has breast cancer and another very close friend of the whanau has the same condition. My kids know kids with cancer that have either won or lost the battle. So really this is my reason, I can't do a lot to help but I can do this."
The Child Cancer Foundation believes that no child suffering from cancer, or their family, should ever feel alone. They provide ongoing practical, emotional and financial assistance to children, and their families, whose lives have been changed forever by this life threatening disease. They also support the health professionals that treat children with cancer and invest in research into the effects of the disease.
Tess must be looking forward to everybody seeing her lose her lid at the big event "I will want to say hi to all my friends, family, workmates and fans. Come down and watch, it'll be heaps of fun!"
[You can make a donation by clicking the link to visit Tess' online fundraising page. If you prefer to make a cash donation, just catch up with her round the Upshot coffee shop just before the start or finish of school.]
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