A CHARITY that helped a youngster through cancer will be supported by two Sussex University students shaving their heads.
Flo Morris’ younger brother Harry was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2020.
While he was being treated, the charity Team Mikayla helped him through by providing him with entertainment and support.
Now fully recovered, Harry, now 18, is about to complete his A-Levels.
Flo said: “I asked Harry which charity was the most significant to him, and he said Team Mikayla.
“It’s nice because it’s for children, when they go into hospital to get their treatment, they get given Nintendo Switches and iPads and things to keep them entertained whilst they’re going through it.
“It’s run by volunteers and is really small so all the money we raise will go directly to the children.”
Flo, originally from Buckinghamshire, wanted to do something to help support the charity and decided she would shave her head to raise money, her friend Jemima Dashwood volunteered to do the same.
They both play on the university’s hockey team and the rest of the Hockey Society is set to support them as they shed their locks.
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Flo said: “We’re pretty nervous about it, we message each other every day like oh my god.”
Jemima, from Oxford, added: “The fact we can do it together is nice though, and we’ve made a nice event out of it, we’re all going to go to a student bar to cut the hair, then get a few pints after.”
They said that thinking about where the money is going is helping to spur them on.
The girls will undergo the big shave on Thursday, March 3.
Their hair will be donated to charity, either to the Little Princess Trust or a charity that uses the hair to clean up oil spills.
Team Mikayla is a charity inspired by a 13-year-old child who has been fighting brain cancer from the age of 4.
The charity raises funds to give gifts to children and teens fighting cancer in Kamran’s Ward at the John RadlcRadcliffe Hospital in Oxford and the children’s cancer ward at Leicester Royal Infirmary
To donate to Flo and Jemima’s fundraiser visit: www.gofundme.com/f/flo-and-jems-head-shave
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