LOCKS OF LOVE

“Our mission is to return a sense of self, confidence and

normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing

donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair

prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children.”

By: Jasmine Thai

WHAT IS LOCKS OF LOVE?

Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides

hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States

and Canada under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss

from any diagnosis. They meet a unique need for children by using

donated hair to create the highest quality hair prosthetics. Most of the

children helped by Locks of Love have lost their hair due to a medical

condition called alopecia areata, which has no known cause or cure.

The prostheses they provide help to restore their self-esteem and their

confidence, enabling them to face the world and their peers.

Financially

Disadvantaged Children

Age 21 and Under

Suffering from long-

term medical hair loss

from any diagnosis

WHO THEY SERVICE

BENEFITS TO CHILDREN

The children who receive these hairpieces have lost more than their

hair; they suffer from a loss of self. Many children have been teased by

classmates and/or embarrassed by the attention they receive because of

their hair loss. They often will withdraw from normal childhood

activities such as swimming, going to the mall or even playing with their

friends. While wearing a hairpiece is certainly not a cure for these

children, it can help restore some of the normalcy to their everyday lives

that most of us take for granted. Locks of Love’s goal to help provide a

foundation on which they can begin to rebuild their self-esteem.

Most wigs made for adult

heads, too big for children

Require tape or glue to keep

them on, adhesives burn or

irritate the scalp

Hair prosthetics provided

are custom-made, donated

from ponytails for each child’s

head.

WHY ARE THEY NEEDED?

HOW TO DONATE

10 inches measured tip to tip is the minimum length needed for a hairpiece.

Hair must be in a ponytail or braid before it is cut.

Hair must be clean and completely dry before it is mailed in.

Place the ponytail or braid inside of a plastic bag, then inside of a padded

envelope.

If you wish to receive an acknowledgment for your hair donation, please fill

out the hair donation form, or write your name and e-mail address or mailing

address on a full size separate sheet of paper and include inside the

envelope. We cannot acknowledge donors who do not send their name and

address according to these instructions.

WHERE TO MAIL IT?

All hair donations must be mailed to Locks of Love at:

234 Southern Blvd.

West Palm Beach, FL 33405-2701

**IMPORTANT** When mailing your donation, please make sure that

you are sending it with adequate postage. The U.S. Postal Service has

notified Locks of Love that many donations are being sent without

enough postage, and these packages will be returned to sender! To

ensure adequate postage, please take your donation to your local post

office.

The purpose of this presentation was to inform

people about the non-profit organization, Locks of Love.

In this presentation I used information from their website :

http://www.locksoflove.org/index.html

For this presentation I used numerous PowerPoint functions

such as different types of slide layouts, clip art, animations,

transitions and I used a theme that I customized.