To offer support for women who lose their hair during cancer treatments, the Suva Cancer Survivors group held a workshop on how to wrap, twist and tie a head scarf into a protective yet stylish way yesterday.
Group president Salote Qalo said the workshop offered women who have recovered from treatment the necessary skills to tie a head scarf and to also teach women in the hospitals who are losing their hair.
“We saw that women, especially those who were going through chemotherapy, did not know how to properly tie their scarves on their head so we went to seek professional help,” she said.
“The scarves were provided by Bula Broads founder Denis Kloeden who has been a huge supporter of the women cancer survivors in Fiji for many years.
“We are so thankful to The Hair Lounge for coming on board and giving their time to help teach our ladies a new skill.”
Salon owner, Aliti Hussein said she wanted to give back to the cancer community after losing her grandfather to prostate cancer.
“After losing my grandfather I wanted to help and give back to cancer survivors and what better way than offering my services of the salon to these ladies,” she said.
“After meeting Ms Kloeden, the salon has worked with the cancer community in Suva for the past four years and we try our best to give our time and free services to the women.”
Salon manager Jann said the workshop was to teach the women basic scarf tying tricks and also manicure and pedicure.
“Today I taught these ladies a few tricks on what they can do with head scarves and also did their manicure and pedicure,” he said.
He said the salon has offered free haircuts and many other services to the women over the years as their way of giving back to the community.
“When these women come to our shop, everything is free and that includes haircuts, manicures and pedicures — and like today we do our volunteering services such as scarf tying classes.
“I hope in the future more bigger companies jump on board and support these ladies because the work they do has so much impact in the cancer community in Fiji and we hope they get more support and recognition.”
