My name is Charlie Greuloch, and I’m cutting my hair for Childhood Cancer Research and for Gianna Andolina, my best friend since preschool. She was diagnosed with cancer when she was just three years old. No adult and no child deserves to have cancer.

When Gigi and I were just six-years-old, I went with her to receive her last chemo infusion at the Cleveland Clinic and saw first hand how brave she had to have been in order to endure all of her treatments. Gigi is healthy now thanks to amazing doctors and researchers, and people like you who donate money to help find new treatments for kids with cancer.

No child deserves to spend so much of their childhood spent in a hospital, prodded with needles and having to have bloodwork taken. No adult deserves to have those awful words spoken about how their child has cancer. No survivor deserves to worry constantly that they’ll be diagnosed with cancer again.

So I’m cutting my hair to try to raise money to make a difference with research. Even if my hair can’t make a wig, I hope to raise enough money to make a dent. I don’t have to be the one to finally cure cancer. I don’t have to be the one to donate all the money to get the doctors the resources for cancer research. All I want to do is make a small difference and as long as I did something to help, then I will know it was worth it.

Thank you!