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Local woman turns hobby into full-time service project; continues to collect bras, tampons
WISH ^ | January 24, 2017 | Nina Criscuolo

Posted on 01/24/2017 12:25:34 PM PST by digger48

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I don’t know how big of a problem this is. But she saw a need and filled it. And she’s gotten such a response it’s obvious others can identify with it.


41 posted on 01/24/2017 2:02:32 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Paved Paradise

She is doing a good deed. I had times in my life where I couldn’t afford those same necessities, but it didn’t stop me from going to a job interview.


42 posted on 01/24/2017 2:08:41 PM PST by Rusty0604 (bc)
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To: thefactor

Agree 100%. A private citizen really stepping up to the plate.


43 posted on 01/24/2017 2:45:07 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: thefactor

Agree 100%. A private citizen really stepping up to the plate.


44 posted on 01/24/2017 2:45:08 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: digger48
Since then, she’s gathered more than 10,000 bras and her work has expanded to include menstrual items as well. “This has exploded,” Heger said.

EXPLODING BRAS!

45 posted on 01/24/2017 3:17:29 PM PST by Lazamataz (TRUMP LIED TO ME!!!! ....He said I'd get sick of winning.... AND I'M NOT SICK OF WINNING YET!!!!)
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To: thefactor; Paved Paradise; All

“We should be encouraging this type of project...we should be supporting this woman, not making fun.”

+1.
The quibble I have, though, is that most poor women all over the US won’t even know about her, or have access to her organization.

BUT many churches and cities have privately operated, non tax-funded food banks or soup kitchens for the poor, which also gladly accept hygiene products. Used bras can be had at any thrift store. So there are many places you can donate.

Plus, if one is so inclined, it wouldn’t hurt to donate such items directly to your nearest middle or high school guidance counselor’s office, with the understanding that girls could get them in gym class.

Yes, there really are women and young girls who cannot afford these necessary items.
When I was in junior high, I was that girl in post #18.


46 posted on 01/24/2017 3:56:37 PM PST by mumblypeg (Make America Macho Again.)
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To: thefactor

Yup, I love this gal!
Her heart is good.


47 posted on 01/24/2017 3:58:23 PM PST by Bobalu (See liberal MSM heads explode...make Milo Yiannopoulos Trump's new Press Secretary!)
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To: Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON

So apparently there is also a J cup? I will admit that had escaped me.

Does the Bro also come that large?


48 posted on 01/24/2017 4:16:59 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido
It would seem so, but got to lose the pink.


49 posted on 01/24/2017 4:57:02 PM PST by Gamecock
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To: digger48

Please - one of them old, the other new?


50 posted on 01/24/2017 6:22:55 PM PST by keving
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