Not yet

Many have written to us asking when will our hair donations resume. As of now, we are not able to answer.

For those who are new, and to refresh memories for some; We stopped accepting hair donations since 2017 to raise funds for making wigs. Without funds, donated hair would not be able to serve what they are meant for. 

Though we have not resumed our hair donations, we are still sending hair to the wig maker (look out for our next post). However, restrictions and measures are slowing down the wig maker. 

To help sponsor our wig, please go to give.asia/oku

Bye 2020

Last day of 2020, so a quick look back at what we have done this year.

This pandemic had caught everyone by surprise, and we are busier than usual just to stay alive.

We hope to resume our hair donations soon, as many had written to enquire, but our main focus is still to raise funds to make more wigs.

Our fundraising has been slow and just last month, Give Asia ended our campaign prematurely due to their system upgrade. They said they were not able to reconnect back their platform to the funding platform, so we would have to create a new campaign in order to receive funds.

Wig Y20-21

We have been making wigs. Our wigs are not just for cover, but an armour filled with love for warriors battling cancer. 

This wig is no exception. Except for this warrior is a 6-year-old princess. Let's gather all the love and wishes for this little princess.
 

Wig Y20-21

Donors: Krystal, Zhong Hou, Shin Jie, Chloe

Wigs update

Wig Y20-01 to Y20-20

These are the wigs donated to NCCS

Wig Y20-01

Donors: Hui Cheng, Cheryl, Ching Lian

When all meet up

We had hair donors, recipient and volunteers gathered for one reason; donating of wigs.

And yes, all 30 wigs were donated to the wig bank of NCCS on Aug 24.

Thanks to everyone for your time and effort for making this happen!



... To be continued soon

It's all done

All wigs done and collected, including those from the first batch that had been sent for rework.  Photos of each individual wig will be posted soon.

Total cost for all 30 wigs is SGD 5400. Balance fund now is SGD 7908.59.

Update

We raised an amazing
SGD 12,928.59

We have raised a total of SGD 13,040 (SGD 12,928.59 after fee deduction from Give Asia).

Source	Amount (SGD)
Give Asia	4815.00
Give Asia (after fee deduction)	4703.59
Offline donation	8225.00
Total (after fee deduction)	12,928.59

For detailed breakdown, go to 'Our Sponsors' page.

Thank you so much for your generous donation to our fundraising. We are ready to send the ponytails to the wig maker!

Stay Tuned!

Fundraising update

We started our first fundraising last November, hoping to raise enough fund for 50 wigs. That’s around SGD10,000. As of now, we have managed to raise over SGD8,000.

Here is the update of the amount we raised

Amount raised from Give Asia: SGD 3,125
Amount received after fee deduction: SGD 3,058.96
Offline donation SGD 5,585

Information on donations' detail can be found at the links below;
https://give.asia/campaign/sponsor_a_wig_1
https://recycleyourhair.blogspot.sg/p/our-sponsors.html

We will be starting to make the wigs soon while hoping to reach our targeted amount.

We would like to thank everyone who helped in the contribution of our fundraising.

Fatima's shoutout

“... there is hair at this point but is really the lack of fund that holding so many patients back from getting the wig that they deserved.”
- Fatima



give.asia/oku

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

2nd batch Donated

Our second batch of wigs of 2016 have been donated to Breast Cancer Foundation last Saturday, 13 May 2017.

We would like to thanks our hair donors, sponsors and volunteers for making this possible.

Wig Y16-08

Donors (from Top): Denis, Peixian, Margaret

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

Important Announcement

Wigs Donated

After much delay, we have finally donated our wigs on 5th July 2016 to NCCS.

Hair were sent to the wig maker last November, and the completed wigs were collected in January. Due to our hectic work schedule and the number of donors to arrange to view the wigs, we were unable to donate the wigs early.

Wig Y16-01

Donors:
Kat, Jocelyn, Michelle (Malaysia), Teresa

Sponsor: Kat

Donated to Kat's Aunt

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!

Wigs Update 01/09/2015

Apologies for the delay on the update of the wigs.

Earlier, we made 4 wigs, including a specially requested wig. We have recently made an additional wig (Y15-05), making the total number of wigs we made this year to 5.

On the 28th July 2015, we donated 4 wigs (see photos below) to the Breast Cancer Foundation. Thank you Hui Shan (our hair donor) for taking your time to come down with us.

A wig for my mum

This is one of the 4 wigs we made recently. It's a specially requested wig from a daughter to her mum, who is currently undergoing chemotherapy.

Not only did she donated 11 inches of her hair, Adeline also helped to sponsor the wig.

We are glad we it was made in time for Mother's day.

Happy Mother's day to Adeline's mum.

Wigs donation 15/12/2014

Today marks a new milestone in our effort to help more cancer survivors.

Together with Meryl, our hair donor and wigs sponsor, we donated the wigs we recently made to the Breast Cancer Foundation Singapore (http://www.bcf.org.sg/).

This is the first time we donated our wigs to them, we are looking forward to donating more in the future.

Wigs Update 17/11/2014

Here are the photos of the wigs we made.

Wig Y14-04 was sponsored by Yu Thi.
Wig Y14-05 and Y14-06 were sponsored by Meryl

	Wig Y14-04 Made from hair donated by: Yu Thi Su Thi Janet (Malaysia) Chye Hoon Batu Pahat 07 (Malaysia) Sponsor: Yu Thi
	Wig Y14-05 Made from hair donated by: Meryl Wan Lu Batu Pahat 02 (Malaysia) Sponsor: Meryl
	Wig Y14-06 Made from hair donated by: Nandar Wan Lu Batu Pahat 01 (Malaysia) Sponsor: Meryl

Quick Update 04/11/2014

Just a quick update of the things that happened yesterday.

The students who came to our workshop in September, had their presentation yesterday morning. Roselyn sent us some photos and we are can't wait for the video to be ready!

Wigs collected. Photo and updates coming soon. All the 3 wigs were sponsored by donors themselves.

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Stay tuned!