Support RYH - Sponsor a wig

Today is World Kindness Day.

It’s the time of the year to do at least one act of kindness today.

As you all know, we have temporarily stopped accepting hair donation since the beginning of the year to focus on raising fund to make more wigs in order to benefits more patients.

And today, we are launching our fundraising campaign. We hope that with this campaign, we could get more people to help with the cost of making of our wigs.

This project had been running from the pocket of our volunteers, their friends and colleagues. Sometimes, we have hair donors sponsoring our wigs as well. It's not sustainable in a long run. Therefore, we decided to seek more help from the public.

We have the hair but need the money to further benefit our local patients.

Spread your kindness on World Kindness Day.

Many thanks!

https://give.asia/oku

Dear Santa

http://www.ourbetterworld.org/en/gsoty-story/battling-cancer-style

Voting ends 27 Dec (10 am)

Did you know that..

• one wig cost around S$200 to make? 
• some of the supposedly sponsored wigs ended up being paid by the volunteers?
• if they win, the prize money could benefit 25 patients / survivors? 
• till date, there are over 800 donors, but the vote count is less than half?
• you have less than 4 days to help? 

Voting ends 27 Dec (10 am)

http://www.ourbetterworld.org/en/gsoty-story/battling-cancer-style

Halfway

This has been a busy year for these volunteers. Other than busy appearing on television and social media. They had been supporting some event as well.

In April, they were involved in an event by Mediacorp Radio station Love 972 and Ocean Butterflies Singapore for VIVA Foundation for Children with Cancer. They help whenever needed. So help them to help more.

Vote for them!

Voting ends 27 Dec 2017 (10 am)

http://www.ourbetterworld.org/en/gsoty-story/battling-cancer-style

Five

Day number 5 … The volunteers have been checking the vote count as and when they are happy anxious. Still far behind.

They had been asking people to vote, but people may not really know what they really do. Yet again, another couple of months back (like there are 24 months this year) crews from Mediacorp Chinese News were seen with them. And then… they appeared on a television programme on Channel U.

The show, World This Week, did a brief segment on what this group is all about, you can watch it over at the link below.

But then, still no sponsor.

Vote for them, though they cannot be your voice in the parliament, they can help those in need too.

Voting ends 27 Dec 2017 (10 am)

http://www.ourbetterworld.org/en/gsoty-story/battling-cancer-style

Once upon a time

Once upon a time, In a little red dot on a map, there is a volunteer group, collecting donated hair and recycle them into wigs for cancer patients free of charge.

Then came a fairy godmother group of good people and said to these volunteers; 'Hey! We could help you.'

And soon, the story of these volunteers were made known to many.

However, these volunteers are still struggling to keep up with the demand of wigs due to the lack of fund.

Then, the group of good people appeared again from nowhere and said to these volunteers; 'We may be able to help, but you will need to gather as many people as possible to vote.'

'Vote?' asked a volunteer.

'Yes',  said the group of good people, 'to vote for your story. The story with the most votes get the S$5,000 prize to jump-start your work in 2017. Just direct your voters to this link (www.ourbetterworld.org/en/good-story-of-the-year/2016).'

Feeling excited, the volunteers are now working hard to garner as many votes as possible between 14 Dec - 27 Dec.


... to be continued

Important Announcement

Special Discount

The wig maker had given us a special discount for the 4 wigs we made earlier this year, from $200 to $180. This is to match the price they quoted Tan Tock Seng Hospital for the wigs they made from their hair donation drive. However, we are not sure how long this offer will last.

Total refunded amount is $80 from the 4 wigs. Respective sponsors have been informed. However, they are more willing to use the refund to sponsor more wigs.

Therefore, with approval from our sponsors, we have used the money to subsidise the making of wig Y15-04, instead of holding on to the money.

Adjustment has been made accordingly.

Wig Y15-01
Adeline - $200 - $180

Wig Y15-02
Letitia - $200 - $180

Wig Y15-03
Meryl  - $200 - $180

Wig Y15-04
Adeline - $20 ($20 from Y15-01)
Letitia - $20 ($20 from Y15-02)
Meryl - $75 - $95 ($20 from Y15-03)
Myself - $125 - $45

Wig Y15-05
Our Better World - $180

See updated post and pages below
http://recycleyourhair.blogspot.sg/2015/05/wigs-updates-07052015.html
http://recycleyourhair.blogspot.sg/p/our-achievement.html
http://recycleyourhair.blogspot.sg/p/our-sponsors.html

Thank you all once again for supporting our cause!

We mean it!

Not long ago, we posted a write up on how not to have your donation rejected, hoping that people would read and reduce the number of rejects we would received. However, this doesn't seems to help, we are still getting quite a number of rejects these days.

In a very recent collection, we had, for the first time, a 100% rejection on a single collection day.

The ponytail above looks fine, no visible smell, but it's greasy. Hair has not been washed.

Video of student's presentation

Here is the video clip of the presentation done by students of Innova Primary School. They are Jia Wen, Kamilah and Wai Yi.

The presentation was presented in the morning of 3rd November, 2014, before the school starts.


Special thanks to the students for creating the awareness, and Roselyn for sharing with us the video.

Students' workshop

From left: Kamilah, Jia Wen and Wai Yi

We are very honoured to be invited to share, with some students from Innova Primary School, on what we do.

It's a record!

Today, we have a record of many records in a day.

Wigs donation this Saturday

We are finally donating the wigs this coming Saturday.

Announcement 01/07/2014

We are pleased to announce our partnership with JasonSally Hairdressers.

JasonSally Hairdressers prides itself in delivering quality service at affordable prices to their clients. With over 30 years of history in the hairdressing industry, they commit to offer professional advice, deliver suitable innovative looks through educating clients the right hair knowledge.

JasonSally Hairdressers (the salon) will be helping in the collection of usable hair left by their customer.

Our hair donors now have the option to visit the salon if they wish to donate their hair to our cause (must meet minimum requirements). Donor can also enjoy a 10% discount* from the salon if they donate their hair.

For more details, you may contact

JasonSally Hairdressers
12 Kensington Park Road Singapore 557264
Tel: 6289-1241

JasonSally Hairdressers
23 Serangoon Central #04-49 Singapore 556083
Tel: 6509-1131

Email: jasonsally.hair@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasonsally.singapore

*Terms and conditions apply.

Disclaimer: RYH will only be collecting hair from JasonSally Hairdressers.


**Update 3/11/2014: We have terminated our partnership with the salon

Have you read it yet?

Article was published on The Straits Times on 18th June 2014, Wednesday.

http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/hairs-another-way-help-cancer-patients-20140618

Viewing delayed

Due to the recent workload, viewing of the wigs has been delayed. Donors will be contacted once we are more ease up with our job. Thank you for your understanding. Our sincere apologies!

Taking photos...

The reason why donors are required to send us photo of their hair/ponytails prior to the arrangement of the collection is for us to verify if the hair is acceptable.

Spam?

If you sent us an email and did not get any response from us, probably your email has be caught by Gmail as SPAM. A recent check on the SPAM folder, we found 8 emails. Six of them were indeed spam, one of them were not, and the other one, we are not quite sure, but we did replied to both.

Measuring tool

This is one of the tools used for measuring ponytails; a measuring tape made from paper.

Important Update!

With regards to the false claim on donation of hair to our cause, we have finally gotten the person involved, Gisele, to cooperate with us. We thank her for her clarification as this is a serious matters not only to us, but also to anybody or organisation doing charity.

Attached below is her email to us, we are publishing it as to answer to all donors and members of the public. We will be forwarding to donors whom we contacted during our investigations and apologise for all misunderstanding and inconvenience caused. We have also requested Gisele to remove all posts on her social media about her hair donation to us, but no reply till date.

Recycle Your Hair would also like to inform the public that we have not and will not be accepting Gisele's hair donation.

Thank you!