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Beard Off Challenge 2021

  • 01/11/2021 - 31/12/2021

Hope for Hair & Movember Mix Madness! is fundraising for Children's Cancer Foundation

Please help support these fantastic causes and make a difference to the lives of many.

My Story

During a work meeting last year, a colleague made a spontaneous joke about wishing to pay me to "get rid of that beard!" which led to an impromptu fundraising effort and in under a week we managed to raise just over $7000 for the Children's Cancer Foundation (CCF) here in Singapore. Having been bald or "follically challenged" as some would prefer, since my late teenage years it is simply not possible for me to take part in the official Hope for Hair event which CCF puts on every year for brave participants to shave their heads. However, since the start of the pandemic, my beard length has often got out of control and therefore, it is my beard that will be sacrificed (for better or worse) as an alternative hair shaving event.

But this year there is an added twist to my challenge! It is also the month of "Movember", a charity that is very close to my heart which helps raise awareness of men's health issues such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men's suicide. So, for the month of November I will be doing the "reverse Movember". For each week in November, I will be sporting a newly styled beard or mustache, reducing in size until I am fresh and baby-faced once again come December!

I am personally pledging to match at least half of whatever we raise for the CCF to donate to the Movember Foundation, so please be twice as generous with your donations as the money will be going to two extremely worthwhile causes. I hope that the comedy value of my four rather embarrassing looks for your viewing pleasure will be enough to inspire great generosity!  

  
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Recent Donors

  • Philippe Lutgen

    SGD 250 12/02/2021 03:14:05 PM UTC

  • Robbie Riha

    SGD 200 12/02/2021 03:05:17 PM UTC

  • Reza Nasehi

    GBP 50 12/02/2021 02:36:07 PM UTC

  • AXA XL Team - Various

    SGD 480 12/02/2021 02:35:08 PM UTC

  • Sim

    Well done Rob! Who knew your facial hair was so valuable :D

    GBP 20 11/30/2021 10:38:46 AM UTC

  • Julian Wallace

    Good work Robbie!

    SGD 250 11/30/2021 03:12:37 AM UTC

  • Ian Roberts

    Great work Robbie!!

    SGD 250 11/30/2021 02:45:31 AM UTC

  • AXA XL Team

    SGD 445 11/29/2021 06:14:25 PM UTC

  • Julian Teoh

    What a great cause, well done Robbie!

    SGD 250 11/29/2021 09:10:29 AM UTC

  • Todd Wilhelm

    SGD 100 11/28/2021 01:14:55 PM UTC

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