HAYLEY Bowden and Lucy Baker have less hair than when they started Grade 12, but it’s not from the stress of navigating boarding school during a pandemic. The vice-captains and boarders of Stuartholme School, Brisbane’s only Catholic girls boarding school, shaved their heads for cancer to a live-stream audience on October 9. The pair were among 36 Year 12 students ... Read More »
ST Joseph’s, Nudgee College students have shaved their locks and raised more than $10,000 for the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave. The students promoted their efforts to family and friends via social media and word of mouth, as well as promoting it around the college in daily notices, via bill boarded posters and presented to the community on full school ... Read More »
WHEN the community of Our Lady of the Rosary, Kenmore, heard that one of the youngest members of its school family had been diagnosed with cancer, it decided to stand up and act. It was late last year that Mitchell, a Year 3 student at OLR, was diagnosed with lymphoma. Mitchell’s family wrote in a letter, “Having our seven-year old ... Read More »
LEUKAEMIA survivor Carly Galligan has lost her hair for the second time in her life in a bid to save other children from the progressive cancer.In 2012, doctors cleared the Carmel College, Thornlands student of leukaemia, a disease she had fought against for five years.After meeting a group of young cancer patients in hospital earlier this year, the healthy teenager ... Read More »
CARLY Galligan received her best birthday present inside a doctor’s surgery four years ago. After battling with leukaemia for five years, doctors announced on her 10th birthday that she was cancer-free. “I was so happy,” she said. “My smile could never have been bigger.” Carly, of Victoria Point, was diagnosed with leukaemia two months before her fifth birthday. She ... Read More »
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