HOUSTON – Two Houston boys are going back to school bald for a good cause.
September is childhood cancer awareness month and in an effort to raise money and awareness some kids are shaving their heads. Money is raised similar to a walk-a-thon.
Carson Hesse survived neuroblastoma and at 12-years-old is now recruiting friends to help him fight cancer for other kids!
At an age when many are conscious of how people perceive the way they look, these two are transforming their image with hopes that people will ask why they did it!
"People are going to see me and ask why I don't have any hair and I'm going to tell them what I'm doing and why I'm doing it," Topher Mohr said.
Money from their friends and family will be donated to the largest non-government funder of childhood cancer grants worldwide, St. Baldrick's. Carson's family knows why that's important.
"I had neoblastoma cancer," He said. "Since I didn't have to go through chemo like other kids have to I'm going to shave my heads for them."
Now the boys stand in solidarity with kids who don't have a choice about losing hair, while creating awareness that kids like them still need your help!
"Think about other people and help them and help people in need," Hesse said.
The children benefiting from St. Baldrick's "head shaving events" are right here in our community. St. Baldrick's has given $5.8 million to: MD Anderson, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor.