Myanmar Women Donate Hair to PH Cancer Patients
Philippine Ambassador to Myanmar Eduardo "Red" Kapunan welcomes the donors and their companions, and thanks them for volunteering to donate their hair for Philippine cancer patients. (Yangon PE photo)
YANGON 05 March 2020 – More than 70 Myanmar women donated their hair for Philippine cancer patients in an event hosted by the Philippine Embassy in Yangon, Myanmar on 29 February 2020 at the Sule Shangri-La Hotel Yangon.
“Donate Your Hair Because You Care” is an event in commemoration of Philippine National Cancer Awareness Month which the Philippine Embassy in Yangon organized in partnership with Fancy House Academy. This charitable project started when Ms. Ei Ei Aung, a staunch advocate of helping cancer patients, requested the Embassy’s assistance in donating her hair to Makati Medical Center in the Philippines. This simple act of kindness and charity by a Myanmar woman towards Philippine cancer patients inspired the Embassy to create an event solely for this purpose.
With the goal of enabling Myanmar and Filipino women in Yangon to give a gift of themselves to women cancer patients and survivors in the Philippines, the Embassy partnered with Fancy House Academy, who provided donor participants with a free haircut during the event “Donate Your Hair Because Your Care”. A total of 57 participants enjoyed the free haircut during the event proper while 14 more women came to submit their already cut hair and observe the hair-cutting session. The Embassy was able to collect 71 packets of at least 9 inches of hair.
Philippine Ambassador to Myanmar Eduardo "Red" Kapunan expressed his gratitude to the attendees for the overwhelming response, especially to Fancy House Academy for providing the eight hair stylists who worked non-stop during the event to help the Embassy in such a worthwhile endeavor.
All collected hair are donated to the Cancer Center of Makati Medical Center. END
Philippine Ambassador to Myanmar Eduardo “Red” Kapunan presents the Certificate of Appreciation and a plaque from the Embassy to Ma Shwe Yee Win, representative of Fancy House Academy, as tokens of gratitude for partnering with the Embassy and providing free haircuts for the participants of the Donate Your Hair charity event. (Yangon PE photo)
Fancy House Hair stylists cut and style the hair of more than 70 women. (Yangon PE photo)
Third Secretary and Vice Consul Stephanie Alexis A. Cruz (standing, fourth from left) with Fancy House Academy owner Ms. Agnes Lim (standing, center) and Fancy House stylists after the successful event. (Yangon PE photo)
Various Myanmar women who donated their hair include 12-year old Myanmar student “Annie” Thiri Shwe Sin (left), four and a half year old Nitara Htet (second from the right), and cancer survivor Daw Khin Htay Lwin (rightmost). (Yangon PE photo)
Left photo: Philippine Ambassador to Myanmar Eduardo “Red” (right) Kapunan and Third Secretary and Vice Consul Stephanie Alexis A. Cruz (left) with original donor volunteer Ms. Ei Ei Aung (center). Right photo: Third Secretary and Vice Consul Cruz (left), and Cultural Attache and Alternate GAD Focal Point Officer Anna Lee Lamigo (right) with Fancy House Academy owner Ms. Agnes Lim (center). (Yangon PE photo)
For more information, visit https://www.yangonpe.dfa.gov.ph or https://www.facebook.com/PHinMyanmar.