fly as hale wrote:
acrossthelines wrote:
Yeah, my hair would make a nice wig, but first of all, Locks of Love basically doesn't even make wigs. They sell almost all the hair they get to wig makers, who just make and sell wigs at full price.
I don't think that's completely true, it's just that they get an excess of donations or some of the hair isn't usable, so they sell that to other manufacturers. But a lot of the hair that they do receive is still going to children with cancer who need wigs, or they use the money donations they get to pay the wig manufactures to create a wig speficially designed for each child.
The Better Business Bureau said this about them:
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In the fiscal year ended November 30, 2002, LoL provided 113 vacuum-fitted cranial prosthesis, repaired 22 pieces, and provided 39 synthetic hairpieces.
Meanwhile, Locks of Love has stated that they receive over 2000 donations a week. They're also an illegitimate charity according to the BBB. Most people, too, think that the tiny number of wigs they do make goes to kids with cancer, which is not true at all; they go to people with alopecia, who are otherwise healthy. The vast majority of children with alopecia don't even like wigs and opt for hats instead, or they wear synthetic wigs because wigs made of actual hair are a lot harder to maintain, and because they're perfectly healthy they're just as active as the average child and don't like real wigs. Synthetic wigs are also a lot cheaper for the parents.