Wigs for a smile

Thank you for taking the time to read our quarterly report. Since February 2019 we've been very active, both promoting this great cause and making wigs for children throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina who've suffered temporary or permanent hair loss. In this period we've provided 6 new wigs, 4 for pediatric cancer patients in Sarajevo, Foca and Banja Luka, and 2 for alopecia sufferers in Tuzla and Bihac (a 12-year old migrant girl from Afghanistan).

Our wigmaker and cancer survivor, Fuad Halilovic, was invited by the Vocational Beauty and Hairdressing School in Sarajevo to take part in the 2^nd year hairdressing curriculum as a Teaching Assistant for practical wig making. 25 students and 3 teachers participated in this exercise.

We would like to thank all our donors for their valuable donations and kind words of support. In the second part of 2019, our focus will be on designing and making children’s wigs. At the end of 2019, we are planning to hold another public hair donation campaign in Sarajevo and we hope that this event will become a tradition and a hallmark of our project.

Please consider telling your friends and family about our project and sharing it locally or globally, via social networks. Every penny, euro cent or pfennig counts. Since hair loss is a very painful and traumatizing experience, for both children and their parents, and the availability of natural-looking, human hair wigs will greatly help cushion the impact of such trauma.

Links:

• Al Jazeera Balkans documentary "Wigs for a smile"