Lisa Prowling is more than willing to part with her luscious locks to help raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation. 77250 Picture: JOE MASTROIANNI
BY NATALIE GALLENTI
NOT many people can say their teachers continue to motivate them years after they have left high school, but for Lisa Prowling this is exactly what has happened.
The Altona Meadows resident was so inspired by a former English teacher who shaved her head all in the name of a good cause, that almost seven years on she has decided to take the plunge and chop off her long locks.
This won’t be the first time the 25-year-old will say goodbye to her hair. Six years ago she made the decision to shave her head to raise money for the Leukaemia Foundation and she is more than happy to clip off her mass of hair once again.
“It’s not a big deal to shave my head,” the marketing and communications manager said.
“I’m blessed to have hair and it grows back.”
Ms Prowling said the passing of her grandmother to cancer had also sparked her decision to take part in the World’s Greatest Shave along with the transparency of the foundation.
“I think there is a lot of fatigue when it comes to giving to charity. This is an innovative way to make money and people know where the money goes.”
The Leukaemia Foundation raises money for people suffering with Leukaemia and their carers.
This year the organisation is hoping to raise $15 million to tackle vital research and continue to provide free services to support people with blood cancer.
“It’s a little sacrifice that I can do to make people that don’t have the luxury of having hair happier. Hair isn’t that important to me.”
Ms Prowling will lop off her locks on 17 March
Anyone interested in donating or registering for World’s Greatest Shave should visit my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au.
