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**KukkoDrukko** · 10-27-2010, 06:35 AM

Ninety percent of the children who apply for wigs through Locks of Love have a disease called alopecia areata. Others have trichotillomania, a disorder that leads them to pull out their hair compulsively. Some have suffered burns or trauma, even dog bites. Others have been in car accidents and lost their scalps. Only 3 percent are bald because of cancer, and they usually have had radiation treatment to the brain stem or are on chemotherapy indefinitely. But most cancer patients are not eligible for Locks of Love wigs because their hair will grow back when their chemotherapy ends.

Okay, enough technical stuff there. In 2002, LoL received enough hair to make approximately 10,000 hairpieces. What a huge difference this would make to those under 18 with hair loss. Yet give.org cites they only made 113 wigs from human hair in that same year along with 61 other pieces for a total of 174 hairpieces. Where did the other 9,826 potential hairpieces go? Also, according to give.org, LoL does not open their financial records to the public like any reputable charity should. They have since remedied this as of 2007.

Many times hair that is cut never actually reaches Locks of Love. The average American female uses many cosmetics on her hair, and uses heated devices on her hair everyday which damage and weaken the hair making it unfit for wigs anyhow. TheCharity Navigator site reports that LoL has provided only 1000 wigs since its inception (date not given - but it first registered as a nonprofit in 1997). LoL reports that it receives over 2000 donations of hair through the mail each week an equal amount from hair salons. http://www.squidoo.com/locksoflove

I can understand that they can't use all the hair, but this definitely decides me! I am going to get my hair done now!!

Pantene Beautiful Lengths, started in June 2006, has received 18,000 ponytails and distributed 2,000 wigs to women with cancer, a number that matches Locks of Love's work since 1997. One company does the work in one year that another company does in nearly 10.

10-27-2010, 06:35 AM	#23
KukkoDrukko Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 511 Senior Member	Ninety percent of the children who apply for wigs through Locks of Love have a disease called alopecia areata. Others have trichotillomania, a disorder that leads them to pull out their hair compulsively. Some have suffered burns or trauma, even dog bites. Others have been in car accidents and lost their scalps. Only 3 percent are bald because of cancer, and they usually have had radiation treatment to the brain stem or are on chemotherapy indefinitely. But most cancer patients are not eligible for Locks of Love wigs because their hair will grow back when their chemotherapy ends. Okay, enough technical stuff there. In 2002, LoL received enough hair to make approximately 10,000 hairpieces. What a huge difference this would make to those under 18 with hair loss. Yet give.org cites they only made 113 wigs from human hair in that same year along with 61 other pieces for a total of 174 hairpieces. Where did the other 9,826 potential hairpieces go? Also, according to give.org, LoL does not open their financial records to the public like any reputable charity should. They have since remedied this as of 2007. Many times hair that is cut never actually reaches Locks of Love. The average American female uses many cosmetics on her hair, and uses heated devices on her hair everyday which damage and weaken the hair making it unfit for wigs anyhow. TheCharity Navigator site reports that LoL has provided only 1000 wigs since its inception (date not given - but it first registered as a nonprofit in 1997). LoL reports that it receives over 2000 donations of hair through the mail each week an equal amount from hair salons. http://www.squidoo.com/locksoflove I can understand that they can't use all the hair, but this definitely decides me! I am going to get my hair done now!! Pantene Beautiful Lengths, started in June 2006, has received 18,000 ponytails and distributed 2,000 wigs to women with cancer, a number that matches Locks of Love's work since 1997. One company does the work in one year that another company does in nearly 10.
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