{"id":5273,"date":"2021-06-20T13:40:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/?page_id=5273"},"modified":"2024-04-26T17:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T16:22:53","slug":"bras-and-bubbly-sets-new-record","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/salisbury\/club-projects\/bra-collection\/bras-and-bubbly-sets-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Bras and Bubbly sets new record!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Club members met up in Club Treasurer Bernie’s lovely garden for a social event with a purpose. Their mission? To sort, count and pack the hundreds of bra and knicker donations gathered from the generous ladies of Salisbury for shipping to Smalls for All.<\/a> The donated pre-loved but lightly used bras and new knickers are shipped to a variety of areas in Africa, where, the charity has found, underwear gives women dignity and self worth and can protect them from assault.<\/p>\n

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Members celebrate a record bra collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this, the fourth year of collecting lightly used bras, Salisbury Soroptimists almost doubled their total collected to date with a record 2000+ bras donated by local ladies.<\/p>\n

The job of sorting and packing was made more pleasant with a glass of Pimm’s or wine to help the work.<\/p>\n

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A group of year 10 students at Burgate School decided they wanted to take a proactive and positive approach to supporting and empowering women across the world.<\/div>\n
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Thank you to (from left to right) Becky Wood, Lily Lester, Fran Everett and Sophie Sherry for collecting 2 large sacks of lightly used bras to support the Salisbury Soroptimist bra collection this June.\u00a0 Thank you to everyone who donated.<\/div>\n

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Members enjoyed the chance to get together to socialise again – socially distanced – while knowing their efforts are improving the lives of women in other parts of the world.\u00a0 Thanks to Barbara for the great photos and to Bernie for the hospitality!<\/p>\n