Going bald for cancer at Ri Ra Irish Pub
Was also there to take his turn at the electric razor, taking a bit off the top of a young boy with a blood disease, Hussen, who has his head shaved every year.The St. Baldrick’s Foundation began in 2000 when reinsurance executives John Bender, Tim Kenny and Enda McDonnell turned their industry's St. Patrick's Day party into a head-shaving event for kids with cancer. They had planned to raise $17,000, but instead collected more than $104,000.
“The movement quickly grew into the world’s largest volunteer-driven fundraising program for childhood cancer research, and today the St. Baldrick's Foundation funds more in childhood cancer research grants than any organization except the U.S. government,” states the Foundation that has raised more than $117 million since their first event. “Since 2000, more than 189,660 volunteers—including over 17,200 women—have shaved in solidarity with children with cancer at events in dozens of countries and every U.S. state.”






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Except that Jose says it's not meant to be so ubiquitous. The beret isn't an affectation, he adds, as he removes his headgear to display a bald pate. “I don't have protective covering anymore,” he says, running his hands over his head.



