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The Bald and the Beautiful: Wigs for Kids Makes a Difference
by Gregory S
Michael Suba never gave much thought to the wig business, until he was diagnosed in 1990 with Hodgkin lymphoma.
Despite extensive chemotherapy, Suba was among the fortunate few who did not experience hair loss. Yet the experience provided Suba with the necessary catalyst to reconsider Continental Hair Salon, a hair replacement solutions clinic started by his parents.
He is now the founder of Wigs for Kids, a self-described “not-for-profit organization providing hair replacement solutions for children affected by chemotherapy, alopecia, burns, and other medical conditions.”
His illness gave him personal insight into what his parents’ business was doing for young people.
“And then you start seeing these kids and what difference it makes in them and the little notes that you get, you can’t turn away from it, it’s just too wonderful,” Suba said in an interview for Global News Toronto.
Wigs for Kids
After a year of treatment, Michael Suba opted to get as involved as possible with hair replacement solutions.
His goal was to help others in need with a focus on young children. Suba began what would become the now venerated Wigs for Kids at Odette Cancer Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
“People donate their hair to us and we make them into small cap wigs for children that we give away for free to any child under 12 in Canada that has a medical type of hair loss,” Suba told Global News Toronto.
There are now thousands of young children receiving hair replacement solutions.
Kea
Take the story of Kea Buote. For nearly a decade, Buote and her supporting mother Trish have traveled from Brockville to receive the not-for-profit wigs from Suba.
“She’s never had hair,” Trish said to Global News Toronto.
Kea was barely six years old when she was given her first wig.
“At this point it’s not expected that she’ll ever have hair,” Trish explained to Global News Toronto. “So the wigs are incredibly important for her just to feel normal and fit in and that’s really important to her.”
Diana
Diana Caruso began losing her hair at age four from alopecia areata. A long time user of Michael’s remarkable services, Caruso was inspired to take up the cause. She now does volunteer work at the Canadian Alopecia Areata Foundation.
“My heart was telling me I needed to be an advocate,” Caruso told Global News Toronto. “I needed little girls, little boys, to know that just because you don’t look like anybody else because you don’t have hair, you can be whoever you want to be, hair or no hair. I want them to know that they don’t have to hide it, I want them to know that they are so beautiful inside.”
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