Throughout October you can donate your hair to breast cancer patients

October is Breast Cancer Support and Awareness Month. During every weekend of the month, Walmart will hold a hair donation campaign, which will be used to make wigs that are given to people who suffer from the disease.

This Saturday the campaign will begin in the Escazú store in the morning and in the afternoon it will be at Walmart San Sebastián.

There a group of volunteer stylists will be doing the cutting for the donation. In addition, a container will be available in the customer service area for those people who prefer to leave their hair donation during regular store hours.

“We thank those who have supported this cause that for more than 10 years has allowed us to collaborate with patients who are going through this disease, through Fundeso, in order to support them in the process,” commented Mónica Elizondo, Deputy Manager of Corporate Affairs of the chain. of supermarkets.

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Requirements

To donate hair, a series of requirements are required; First, a minimum of 25 centimeters long and the hair must be clean and dry.

If you do not show up to the collection days, but want to bring your hair for donation, you must have it tied in a braid or ponytail and packaged in a sealed transparent bag.

The hair may be gray, dyed, or have received a color treatment, but not bleached or dyed with “fantasy” colors.

These are the dates and supermarkets where the campaign will be carried out:

• Saturday October 5
  Escazú and San Sebastian
• Sunday October 6
  San Francisco de Heredia and Heredia Este
• Saturday October 12
  Alajuela and Ciudad Quesada
• Sunday October 13
  Guadeloupe and Tibas
• Saturday October 19
  Cartago and La Lima
• Sunday October 20
  Desamparados and Curridabat
• Saturday October 26
  Liberia
• Sunday October 27
  Perez Zeledon

Haircuts will be performed from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.