A SELFLESS 11-year-old girl has sacrificed her long locks to raise money for a good cause.
Delilah McNulty from Brighton raised more than £900 for Martlets by shaving off all of her hair.
Delilah said: “People keep telling me how brave I am, but I don’t think so. It’s only hair and it will grow back - I don’t have cancer. Some people are not so lucky.”
The kind-hearted youngster decided that she didn’t need her hair anymore and asked her mum, Sorcha Bridge, if she could raise money for Martlets, a charity that cares for people with terminal illnesses, by having her head shaved.
Delilah said: “I know that lots of people there need support. It made me feel good to know that I was helping people.
“As I got closer to the day, I started to feel quite scared – but when I got to the hairdressers I was excited. I even cut my own ponytail off, and then the hairdresser shaved off the rest.”
Her friends couldn’t believe it when she came into school the next day sporting her new look.
She said: “My friends at school didn’t believe that I was going to do it so they were really shocked.”
Liz Davies from the hospice’s fundraising team said, “Delilah is such an amazing young lady. She might not think that she’s been particularly brave, but we think she is an inspirational role model.”
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