A young Nantwich girl had her long locks chopped off to raise money for a cancer charity.
Big-hearted Aria Ruiz, a pupil at Highfields Primary, wanted to do something in aid of The Little Princess Trust.
It was in memory of her grandma Christine Robertson, who died in 2022 very suddenly from cancer.
Eight-year-old Aria had 16 inches of hair cut off to donate and raised almost £1,000!
The minimum required is seven inches which helps make a real hair wig for a child who has lost their hair through cancer treatment.
Her auntie Leanne Harvey said: “It costs £750 to make one wig so this has been a fantastic achievement by Aria!
“She has received donations from family and friends as well as her mum’s colleagues at Leighton Hospital and mine at The Open University.
“The generosity from colleagues who do not know me or Aria has been outstanding.
“Aria has wanted to donate her gorgeous long blonde hair for a long time now in memory of her ninny who lost her fight to cancer.
“As soon as she heard that it can happen to children too she instantly wanted to help and chose to do this which makes us so so proud.”
Aria had her hair cut off in front of her friends at a school assembly at Highfields just before they broke up for Christmas.
She has already raised £970 in total and they are still receiving donations. You can donate at her Justgiving page here.
And here’s a special video message from Aria thanking everyone for donating!
Ted. As an outsider, what do you think of human race? This young girl did more than many to help others. Well done and I hope she had a good Christmas and received all she wanted.
You clearly could not be bothered to properly read the article or watch Aria’s video thanking everyone for their donations, Mr Lewis. If you had, you would have seen Aria explaining how it was her idea and how much she wanted to do it to help others. Please revisit her just giving page and watch her video so you can be reassured. Maybe even donate!
I feel quite fortunate that Aria does not have access to social media for her to see this. For someone who has such a big heart, see a response of this kind from a grown man being so judgemental and making her actions out to be ‘cruel’ or forced upon her would surely make her upset and question why someone is so disgruntled at her choice.
Maybe you should offer to tidy a disabled person’s garden instead of all this sitting behind a keyboard ‘Malarkey’ trampling on a 8 year olds good deed. Actions speak louder than words afterall Mr Lewis. Shame on you.
And just incase you are a disabled person bitter that the hair donated and money raised will help a child who has lost their hair due to cancer and bring a little bit of happiness to their life , instead of helping you….Aria and I will come and do it for you. I am sure Aria would be more than willing to sit down with you afterwards to explain how she came to her decision and why she did it.
I hope you have had a lovely Christmas and that your new years resolution for 2025 will be if you can’t say anything nice, just don’t say anything at all.
Ted whilst I appreciate your opinion kind of, if you knew my daughter and her mind and all of the things she’s been through and continues to go through you will understand how much happiness this brought her! All of which was HER CHOICE! As soon as it was cut she said she wants to do it again next christmas. So please don’t bring the tone down! This was an amazing thing to do and definitely not deserving of you negativity.
not sure that is a good way to raise funds, quite a cruel way to fundraising a child can have a hard time adjusting to such a huge chop, far better to do a gradual trim, why isn’t there more variation in ideas, helping to tidy a disabled persons garden for one, would be far better than this malarkey every time