12 year old boy, William Horvath of Howell donated his 10 inches hair to Locks of Love, a public nonprofit organization for Children with hair loss. Uses a donated hair to create hair prosthetic who suffer hair loss due to chemotherapy treatments or alopecia areata.

According to William’s family, 2 years ago when William who has Tourette Syndrome. He was in the fifth grade, he started to grow his hair when his motor tics, included head jerking and twitching was started to get worse. William found out that having a longer hair is seems less noticeable his motor tics to his peers. About 4 months ago, William decided to cut his hair and donate to Locks of Love so that he can help other children. He decided to wait to have cut it, because his hair was only 8 inches long.

William is now a seventh grader at the Howell Middle School South and a Star Scout with St. Veronica’s Boy Scout Troop 300. His personal “good deed” to a peer in need as to be part in various community service projects.

William on a trip to the Freehold Raceway Mall on Sept 27 with his mother, Linda Ann, and three of his brothers such as Benjamin, Quentin, and Augustus went to get his twin sisters, Bethany and Emily. their first haircuts. He decided it was a time to have his hair measured again.

Irene Nigrelli of Kids Cuts measured William’s hair to see if William had the required 10 inches hair long to make the donation. Upon receiving the thumps up, he sat in the chair and patiently awaited as his long layered blond hair was put in multiple pony tails and cut close to his scalp. He could not believe at first when he saw his looks and how different he looked with his new super short cut.

Linda Ann and Joe, a William’s parents said “We have always taught our children it is important to give to others, no matter how little you have, because there is always someone who is in more need than us, and we are very proud of William for following this important lesson by giving up something of his own for someone else”.