By Paula Ahillon For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:03 GMT, 19 March 2019 | Updated: 05:03 GMT, 19 March 2019
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A 12-year-old schoolgirl was mocked for shaving her head in honour of her grandmother, a cancer survivor.
Kyarah Doyle, from New South Wales, took part in the Leukemia Foundation World's Greatest Shave on Thursday.
The Inverell High School student raised more than $1000 for the charity by shaving off her long brown hair.
But despite her good intentions cruel bullies made rude remarks, laughed and called her 'ugly' when she turned up with no hair on Monday.
Kyarah's mother Jessica Smith said she came home in tears.
Inverell High School student Kyarah Doyle (pictured), from northern New South Wales, reached her goal to raise at least $1,000 for the Leukemia Foundation World's Greatest Shave
The 'selfless' year seven student made the brave decision to shave off her sandy-blonde hair in honour of her grandmother, who was diagnosed with cancer
'She came home from school and as soon as I saw her, I knew there was something wrong,' the mother-of-four told Daily Mail Australia.
'Students at school, who she classified as friends, bullied her and asked her why she would have done that,
'They should have been the ones to support her and they knew full well why she