ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. - Penn High School's "Hair Because We Care" club donated locks to Children With Hair Loss, a non-profit providing human hair replacements at no cost to children. 

The event had one stipulation, donators must cut eight inches of hair, but dyed or permed hair was accepted. 

Annie Eutsey, a teacher sponsor, explained the process. 

Eight inches are cut from two section in the front, two in the back and lastly, the hair is rubber banded and packaged in a bag. 

The donated hair "makes wigs for kids who have lost their hair due to alopecia, cancer, and many other things," said Eutsey. 

The annual event has grown from 12 donators in their first year to an expectation of 40 this year, now in its sixth year. 

"We’re also going to surpass our 1,000th inch this year over all of our six years with our biggest event today and we’ve ever had," said Ella Smoker, the club's founder. 

To Smoker, a graduating senior, this year's event is bittersweet, but she knows the club will be in good hands next year.

"We really wanted to give students an opportunity to give back to the community with something that they had," said Smoker. "Not everyone, especially students, can’t give money or certain things like resources that they don’t have. But everyone can give hair, so that’s why we went to hair, just to give everyone an opportunity to serve and give back."