Uplift calls again - please help

I am asking you a small favour – I hope you won’t think me too cheeky ......

I volunteer for Uplift – a small Melbourne community based organisation which sends bras overseas to women who cannot afford them (always free). I became involved because I wanted to give something back but because I have a huge job I needed something I could coordinate rather than give time to....... I also was a nurse and thought that helping these women was a great idea, practical and very much needed

Over the years we have sent hundreds of thousands of bras to overseas countries and we also gave thousands to the women of the Victorian bushfires who lost everything.

Here is what I wrote on a couple of scrapping sites today (Scrap Therapy, LSBS, Chook Scraps)

Hi everyone

We are needing bras to send to Fiji we only need 32000!!!!! I am the representative for Uplift which sends bras to developing countries...... we have finally got sponsorship for a shipping container to go to Fiji!

The women in Fiji cannot afford bras and because of the heat and humidity this causes infections and abscesses on the chest wall.

One bra in Fiji is worth around 6 weeks of a full time wage - hopeless money to find for these women

We really appreciate your support please pass it around....collect from work, childcare etc - if you feel so inclined

The Uplift site is http://www.upliftbras.org/ for more info

All sizes and any condition.... but big sizes and maternity bras would be very excellent. If you have smaller bras though these are used for teenagers ....so send them too!!

Please send to
Uplift
c/o Liz Baker
9 Steven Street
Hurstbridge VIC 3099

Thanks girls time to clean out your bra closet (and those of your daughters!) and send them on

With grateful thanks

Carol