Sponsored haircut will help two charities
4:33pm Tuesday 26th February 2013 in News By Julia Breen
A CLEVELAND police worker had her hair cut off to help send a schoolgirl to the US for life-changing treatment.
Helen Barron, 29, a police community support officer in Hartlepool, had 15 inches of blonde hair chopped off and donated to the Little Princess Trust at the Inspiration Hair Salon in the town today (Tuesday, February 26).
The hair will be used to make real-hair wigs for children across the UK and Ireland who have lost their own hair due to cancer treatment.
She is also raising money for the Jailed 4 Georgia fund, which is raising cash to send Hartlepool schoolgirl Georgia Hart overseas for clinical trials after she was diagnosed with rare, debilitating condition Freidreichs Ataxia.
The 16-year-old needs 30,000 to get her to the USA for treatment, where more is known about the progressive illness, which damages the central nervous system.
The incurable illness, which affects just one in 50,000 people, has left Georgia with curvature of the spine, fatigue and on daily medication to prevent heart disease.
Mrs Barron said: People keep asking me why I would want to cut my hair, but its only hair, and its for two excellent causes."
Mrs Barrons colleagues, Sergeant Dave Halliday, PC Keith Robinson and PC Lorene Haworth are also raising money for Georgia by staging a mock-arrest of a teacher and taking him on three-day drive around all 43 custody suites in England and Wales.
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