When One Mission’s founder, Ashley Haseotes’ son lost his hair from cancer treatment, she found herself so anxious about how the world would treat him. She was dreading the stares, pity, and awkward things people would say—because they did! For her son, Nicholas, losing his hair was not that big of a deal, because at 7 months old, he didn’t know what was going on.

For many of the families who were around them during their treatment at Boston Children’s Hospital, hair loss was the BIGGEST issue they dealt with during treatment.

Think about that for a second. As a kid, you know you have cancer but all you care about is…
HOW WILL I LOOK and HOW WILL PEOPLE TREAT ME WHEN I GO BALD?

A few months after she started One Mission, Ashley came upon this picture of Nicholas. It was at that moment she came up with the idea for the One Mission Buzz Off. Aside from wanting to raise much-needed funding for One Mission programs and services, she wanted kids to know there are people out there WHO HAVE THEIR BACKS. Even if they remain strangers forever.