“In a night full of pain
and darkness, be a candle spreading light until dawn.” Rumi
Meera Sharma, a Chennai born and a graduate from Women’s Christian College, in one of her service oriented clubs in the college chose Rotaract as she knew that something good could come out of a project, wherein she was a Project Secretary. Her seniors from the Rotaract club thought about the idea of making human hair wigs for cancer patients. The idea evolved as she saw a YouTube video on human hair wigs.
She realized that not many people are aware of these things. Hence she researched and along with a team met doctors to understand; how cancer patients lose a lot of hair from not just head but all over the body including eyebrows. This impacts their self esteem, especially women and kids, due to which it becomes difficult for these patients to move around freely.
Meera found out that the real hair wigs for cancer patients were expensive ranging over Rs 30,000 and the synthetic wigs were not comfortable. As a chairperson of the Rotaract club of Women’s Christian College, Chennai, she decided to do something about this. Hence with the help of her team she started donating her own hair for the cause and partnered with salon chain, Green Trends and wig maker, Raj Hair International Pvt. Ltd who agreed to make natural wigs at a lesser price. These wigs are distributed for free for the under privileged cancer patients of the Cancer Institute. She found sponsors whose contributions made it possible to take forward this initiative. Today Tangled is working across India to provide free, organic wigs to cancer patients and boost their self esteem.
Meera Sharma is an inspiration to all the young girls in our country; at such an young age she attempted and explored possibilities of bringing light into darkness. She’s definitely a beautiful example of what a young person can do when they are mentored and guided …. I am glad to make this post today… for further readings here’s the link:
https://www.paisawapas.com/student-stories/tag/meera-sharma-tangled/
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Wonderful story Genevive! Cancer patients suffer such a lot as it is and to have proper hair as wigs just makes it all just that little bit easier! Meera Sharma is a true inspiration. Thank you for sharing this #WATWB post.
ReplyDeleteThank you Susan, appreciate you for your comment. Yes I agree with you that this small initiative will help the patients.
DeleteThis is so inspiring! Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteAppreciate your initiative and glad to be part of it, thank you.
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