Getting a new haircut is always exciting. It’s a chance to change up your style, sport a new look and show the world a “brand new you.”
For Phoebe Kannisto and her six sons, their latest haircuts were all part of a family effort to give back.
The mother of seven from Buffalo, New York, along with her six sons—10-year-old Andre, 8-year-old twins Silas and Emerson, and 5-year-old triplets Herbie, Reed and Dexter—decided to grow their hair out and donate it to Children With Hair Loss.
Phoebe Kannisto
The organization provides hair replacements for kids who have suffered from medically related hair loss, and it’s one that the whole family holds near and dear to their hearts.
“Three years ago, my friend lost her son to cancer,” Phoebe told Huffington Post. “He was a twin and very close in age to my twins. On the first anniversary of his passing, my three oldest boys donated their hair in his memory.
Since their donation two years ago, our lives have continued to be touched by cancer. It’s everywhere. My boys want to help, and donating their hair is how they do it.”
Phoebe said she and all of the boys waited until everyone’s hair was the minimum donation length before heading to get their haircuts together.
Phoebe Kannisto
“Obviously, everyone’s hair grows at different rates,” she said. “So it took quite some time for everyone to be ready.”
Andre grew his hair out for a year, the twins grew theirs for two years, and the triplets have been growing theirs for their entire five years of life.