Tia Costa, a six-year-old resident of Bandra would by no means let anyone touch her hair. Cutting them was subsequent to not possible. Inspired by a tv show, Tia reduce her knee length tresses to get a wig produced out of it for cancer patients.
Touched by how cancer patients shed their hair through chemotherapy, Tia wanted to present a wig produced up of her tresses as a Christmas present to a needy patient. When asked how she felt parting away from her hair, which she fondly named Rapunzel hair, the six-year-old stated, “I am happy that I can share my hair with a needy. My hair will grow back, but by donating, I will be able to put a smile on someone’s face, who lost their hair due to cancer.”
Four months ago, tiny Tia was watching tv with her parents, when she watched a show starring noted Hair Stylist Elton Steve Vessaokar of Hair Masters luxury salon in Bandra about hair donation for cancer.
“A teenage girl was donating her hair for cancer patients. Tia loves her hair very much. Watching someone cutting their hair and donating it puzzled her. She asked about it and we explained that a wig will be made out of the donated hair for needy cancer patients. We explained that cancer patients lose their hair during treatment. She did not stop there. She began reading up about cancer patients. Seeing the picture of people, especially kids, with no hair affected Tia a lot. She told us that she wanted to cut her hair and donate it for the cause,” stated Tia’s mother Sharmaine Costa.
Tia, according to her parents, normally desires to enable folks. However, they by no means imagined that she would reduce her hair -one thing that she is pretty fond of- and donate it.