The first Alopecia Awareness week was a great success. Thanks to all that were involved.

One of the activities was the Alopecia Awareness Walk - Lachlan has kindly written this for us about the walk.
 
Hi my name is Lachlan I am 11 years old, I am very lucky to know the Adamson family as I have Alopecia. Until last year I had never met any other kids like me.

For Alopecia Awareness Week, the Princess Charlotte Alopecia Foundation organised a walk from North Sydney Pool to the Homebush pool. Lots of famous people came with us like Stephanie Rice, even my brother who is 8 came too. The new Billboard on the truck followed us along the road. Cars & trucks beeped their horns at us.

It was fun walking over the Harbour Bridge I have only done that once before, then came the Anzac bridge – that was the first time I have walked over this bridge.

The day was very tiring & hot but I kept on going.  Matty said the walk was 12km but it was a big walk over 20km. My brother , Charlotte & Milly made it to Balmain. A few others dropped out along the way. I was just about to give up, when we stopped at a corner store & I got a paddle pop – it was the paddle pop that helped me make it to the end.

Later we had a swimming relay race with celebrities, Stephanie was in our team & she won the race for our team.

(Photo above) George and his kindy class pretending to have no hair like George

The Celebrity Swim
Our second function for Alopecia Awareness Week was a celebrity swim at Homebush Aquatic Centre after the walk.

We had a large crowd gathered with Stephanie Rice, Mal Meninga, Paul “Nobby” Clarke and Ed Phillips racing against our finest young swimmers and very glamorous girls. The pool was awash with laughter, many belly flop type diving entries and just general good fun.

Stephanie glided down the pool with ease and grace, and encouraged our littlies to finish their laps of the pool. Cheers rang out when the final lap was completed, and everyone who competed was declared a winner.

Four very generous people donated their hair to Tresses for Princesses, and Stephanie looked like she has the hang of the scissors with her adept cutting of the ponytails.

Matt graced us with his wonderful commentary, and again we must thank him and Bec for their amazing dedication to the Foundation Thank you to the committee members who helped in the organisation of the day, and to the wonderful people who supported this great cause.

I hope that the morning walker’s blisters have healed. What a superb effort by everyone who participated, and a wonderful way to showcase the new banner.

There are some more photos on the gallery page and we will be adding to these aswell.