Women and girls from HANC Plainview are now sporting shorter locks, having donated their hair at a recent charity event.
At the HANC Plainview Bonfire and BBQ Wednesday, more than 25 students, alumni, parents and friends cut their hair, which will be donated to Zichron Menachem, a Jerusalem-based organization that makes wigs for girls and women with cancer.
Even students in the lower grades participated. HANC's youngest donation came from a kindergarten student. And older children, too, participated.
"It was an interesting experience for me because it was the first time I've ever done that," said third grader Fredi Schneider, of Glen Cove, reflects.
"I wanted to do it for the mitzvah [good deed]," she added. "I did it to help children around the world with all kinds of cancer."
"We all get excited about the clean feeling of a new haircut," Principal Rabbi Kalman Fogel said. "Our special group of young ladies are even more excited about the hair that was cut off than the hair that remains on their heads. With the cut hair, they get to help other kids, and there's no greater feeling."
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