Locks for Peyot?

Everyone has heard of Locks of Love. Locks of Love provides wigs for children who suffer from cancer and hair loss due to chemo. I had a student who had her Bat-Mitzvah at a beauty salon and the girls got manicures, pedicures and haircuts and all their hair was donated to Locks of Love. My sister just told me that there is an organization (I am still trying to find the name of it) who collects hair to make peyot to attach to a yarmulka for hasidic boys who lost hair due to cancer. If I recall, if you don't have hair, you don't need to have peyot. I assume the purpose of this is to make the kids suffering with cancer "fit in" with their friends who have the long peyot. In many hasidic sects the men shave their heads and just leave the peyot. I guess this is not so far off since the cancer victims look the same because they are all bald - I guess just adding peyot to the yarmulkas solve the problem. Very innovative. The phrase "necessity is the mother of invention" rings true here.