Locks of Love

BEC’s Ops Manager Donates His Mane

If you are unfamiliar with Locks of Love (www.locksoflove.org), let me give you a brief synopsis:

A 501(c)(3) non-profit agency since 1997, Locks of Love provides hairpieces for disadvantaged kids (age 21 and under) suffering from long-term medical hair loss of any diagnosis.

Using donated ponytails, Locks of Love helps create custom wigs made specifically for children’s heads. Normal wigs are made to fit adult heads and often must be taped or glued on to the child’s head. The Locks for Love custom prostheses forms a vacuum on the child’s head and can be worn while swimming, showering, running, playing and 1,000 other things children do.

Locks of Love has guidelines for acceptable hair, among them the hair must be unbleached and at least 10” long. The custom wigs allow children to rebuild their self-confidence and return to normalcy and lose their inhibitions about losing the wig or having a classmate pull it off.

If you know or have met our Operations Manager, Rob Barron, in person then you are familiar with his long hair spilling into bushy curly-Qs down his back. Rob’s long hair has been a staple at BEC since he started as a Help Desk Technician nearly four years ago.

“I’ve had long hair off and on since I was 15,” Rob says. “But every couple of years it’s good to cut it off and start over. And the best part is that the hair goes to a great cause.”  

Besides running the Customer Service & Implementation Departments at BEC, he is also the father of two and writes a blog about fatherhood called “How About Two?”