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Jessica Ekstrom - Headbands of Hope 2-25-2014
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As a student at North Carolina State University, Jessica Ekstrom started Headbands of Hope ... and organization that provides a movement to spread hope in all girls and fight in the battle against childhood cancer, one headband at a time. ?Headbands are the perfect way for these girls to keep their feminine identity and have a constant reminder that they're not alone. Many girls fighting childhood cancer lose their hair during their rigorous chemotherapy treatments. The inspiration for this charity derived from an internship at the Make a Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina. Granting the wishes of children with life-threatening illnesses was a life changing event for founder Ekstrom; ”One day, I was pulling my hair back in a ponytail and thought about the hundreds of girls I encountered that lose their hair to cancer. I saw how much losing their hair had an impact on their self-esteem and confidence level. Not only do they have to face the risk of losing their lives, they feel that they lost a part of their feminine identity.”
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