"I feel like I just started a new life."

Cameron Saibil, 6, has been growing his hair for two years — and endured occasional teasing over it — so he could donate his locks to cancer patients.

The Royal Vale School student had his long hair shorn today in front of a room full of his friends.

Cameron Saibil, 6, holds up his freshly cut hair, which he is donating so it can be turned into a wig for a cancer patient. (Sarah Leavitt/CBC) Cameron was inspired by an after school teacher in kindergarten who appeared one day with her hair much shorter than usual. When he asked her why she'd cut it off, she told him she was donating it to a child with cancer.

"He was like, 'I have to do that too,'" Maya Saibil, Cameron's mom said.

"Cameron's the type of kid that takes care of anyone or everybody," Vanessa Harrar, Cameron's other mom said. "So as soon as he hears somebody needs something, he'll give anything that he can."

Cameron holds up $50 that he received from his school to go towards his donation to the Canadian Cancer Society. (Ainslie MacLellan/CBC)

Cameron also managed to raise $900 for the Canadian Cancer Society.

He says he's already growing out his hair so he can donate it all over again.