Rishita Marripalli with Shiva Kumar of ‘Hair Donations for Cancer Patients’
Grew your hair through the lockdown? Like these people, you too could donate it all to help make wigs for people with cancer
In the months before joining college, 17-year-old Rishita Marripalli shaved her head.
Her inspiration was her 21-year-old sister Priya, who was motivated after seeing her aunt go through the treatment for cancer. “Rishita watched me cut my hair to donate for a cause and decided, on the spur of the moment, to do it too. But she went a step ahead and shaved her head completely,” says Priya, from Hyderabad.