Today was the big day. Henry's head feels like a tennis ball but he's raised a heap of money.
My 8 year old son, Henry has been growing his hair for over a year.
Working the surfer vibe, growing up on the South Australian coast.
Then he heard about the World's Greatest Shave, a national fundraising drive where people choose to shave or colour their hair and chase down sponsorship from friends and family; with the money raised going to help families struggling with Leukemia.
So he decided to get involved.
A local radio station, LifeFM invited him in for an interview, which went really well, and prompted a few more donations.
My original post made 20SBD, which will be added along with liquid rewards from this post, to the donations from other friends, family and some generous steemians (Andrew Hamilton, cheers), currently over $1300, with one week left to go.
So today was the big day, and everything went great.
So a huge thank you to everyone who's supported Henry in this, through donations, upvotes and messages of support. And a special shoutout to his lovely mum, @amandaclarke, who took our sweet little boy's whim and made it real.
A fellow steemian and top bloke, @ratticus is also staring down the clippers, and hoping for some support; so head on over, and slide your bar all the way to the right.
Top effort, mate :)
As always, have a fantastic day
sounds like you have a sweet kid Matt.
I'm very blessed :)
Contributing my upvote to the cause! What a great kid!
Thankyou; we're very proud of him.
nice haircut,, brave boy
I'm really glad to see this, your son is doing a great thing. @ironshield
That's awesome! Good for him. It's so encouraging when kids see a need and just DO something about it. They don't think about how it will affect their social standing or anything, they just help. Good for you guys for raising such a selfless son!
ah, LifeFM have always been pretty supportive when it comes to this sort of thing. I was friends with some of their staff and on air personalities back when the name changed (way back in the mid 90s, before I moved to Perth) and even then they were always willing to spruik good fundraising causes, along with running their own fundraisers
Yeah, I'm not a big radio listener, so don't know them well, but Amanda leaves it glued on 107.9, because it's just nicer, uplifting etc.
Nice girl/DJ, Kit. Very good in the job, put him at ease, and coaxed the shyness out.
I really appriciate this kind effort of this young boy.
and you are lucky to have a son with a golden heart.
it just brings tears to my eyes.
he is a here <3
I just love him.
May God bless him always.
@Amandaclarke want to congrats you too to have a son like him :)
Thank you Abdul. We're very proud of him.
After knowing what he is doing The whole world will proud of him :)
I too proud of him.
While my first fundraising post has paid out, I will be doing another one at some point. First we get Henry to his goal and then kick on to push towards my goal
Fantastic work @henryclarke you've done an amazing thing for such a great cause:) I've shared this post with my followers so we can raise this generous donation even higher mate.
Thanks o07 :)
Thanks for putting those monkeys on my desk, too. They're home, safe.
It's hard to look like a tough kid when your mum is kissing you. lol
Well done, Henry!
He grew it long to hide some of the prison tatts.