LANSING, Mich. (WILX) -People in the Lansing community got the chance to help give back to kids with cancer on Saturday with the 11th annual University of Michigan Health Sparrow hair-a-thon and bone marrow drive.

The event lets community members receive a free haircut so that they can donate all the hair to a company to help make wigs for children who have lost their hair due to cancer for free.

Community members who were over the age of 18 also had the chance to get swabbed so that they could join the national registry as a potential bone marrow donor.

Aileen Hansen, who’s a child life specialist at the University of Michigan Health Sparrow, talked about why the event is so important.

So we service pediatric cancer patients from our community right here in Lansing,“ said Hansen. ”So

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