A KIND-HEARTED woman has been fundraising to help a little girl, who has suffered hair loss, regain her confidence.

Angel Taylor, nine, a pupil at St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School in Ashingdon Road, Rochford, was diagnosed with Autoimmune Hypothyroidism in March – it is a disorder where the immune system attacks the hair follicles.

Sadie Webb, 35, from Cherry Orchard Lane, Rochford, organised the Just Giving donation drive when she found out from Angel’s mother about her condition. She set up the page last Thursday.

She said: “The £400 raised will be towards a new wig or a princess party, or just anything to help boost Angel’s confidence.

“When I sit there watching Angel come to school, I cry my eyes out because she’s just so upset.

“It’s heartbreaking. She used to be such an outgoing little girl and she loved going to school.”

Ms Webb’s son is in the same class as Angel.

Angel is wearing a wig donated by the Little Princess Trust, but Ms Webb felt more needed to be done to bring back the girl’s smile.

She said: “I want her to know she is loved and want her to get some confidence back.”

Angel’s mother Annabelle Taylor, 45, of Eastwoodbury Crescent, Southend, told the Echo: “I really want to thank Sadie for organising this.

“She had intended it to be a surprise, but one of the other mothers of the school found out and told me last Friday.

“Angel lost her hair last week of the summer term, and she has been saying to me ‘I feel ugly’, and ‘I feel ugly without my wig on’.

“Sometimes she cries at school, and teachers have called me saying she’s not feeling well, or she’s not feeling comfortable.

“But it’s actually Angel’s way of telling me she wasn’t up for school that day.”

She added: “Angel also counts how many hours she is away from me.”

Ms Taylor said Angel was bullied before because of her appearance from other children.

She added: “About two months ago when we were at Kids Kingdom in Southend some kids were trying to pull her baseball cap off. And they said she looked like a boy.”

Unfortunately, Angel needs to take medication for the rest of her life. The brave girl still has another tough battle. When she was born she was diagnosed with development dysplasia of the hip. She has had surgery four times and now she is living with pelvic obliquity.

This is where the pelvic bone has grown too much on the one side leaving Angel with one leg shorter than the other.

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