For most of Bram Lowenstein’s life, his grandmother Carol Betty Bercutt, or “Mimi” as he knew her, greeted him wearing a wig. When she died in November 2010 after a decade of living with breast cancer, the 12-year-old Bellaire resident wanted to remember her in a special way.
Mimi’s Wigs was birthed as a service project for Lowenstein’s bar mitzvah. The wigs she left behind and ones he gathered through donations and purchases became the start of a program to benefit others going through treatment. In February, he donated 23 wigs to The Rose, Houston’s leading nonprofit breast cancer organization.
“I know that I want to keep expanding on this project. I will keep collecting wigs and donating them because there are a lot of people who are in need of them, who want to wear a hair piece when they go outside, play with their kids, or be with their families. I like this project,” Lowenstein said.
The Rose offers a full range of breast cancer screening and diagnostic services to both insured and uninsured women. The donated wigs will be offered at no cost to uninsured women going through treatment.
“We want to thank you for your generosity and for your ingenuity,” Chief Operating Officer Bernice Joseph said. “Every time someone as young as you starts thinking about giving back, it’s the beginning of a consciousness that grows and leads us all to a better place. There are so many women we treat who cannot afford a wig. Their lives will be changed.”
Lowenstein, a seventh grader at The Emery/Weiner School, plans to start a website to encourage others to contribute to Mimi’s Wigs.
For more information or to make a donation, contact The Rose at 281-484-4708.
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