Helping
women and girls.
April 1 -30, 2024
Since 2011, women of Central Oregon have been donating gently used and new bras to Soroptimist’s “Bras from Bend” donation drive. All bras are sent to the non-profit, Free the Girls (freethegirls.org), who works with survivors of sex-trafficking in Africa and Latin America to provide education reimbursement, therapy, housing security, health initiatives, and economic empowerment for financial stability.
Please give your support during the month of April and drop your bras in the Soroptimist of Bend bra boxes at the following locations. Monetary donations are also welcome to help cover the cost of shipping.
Deschutes Children’s Foundation - 2125 Daggett Lane
Little Hair Shoppe - 2669 NE Twin Knolls
Mariposa Beauty - 2880 NE Hwy 20 (across from Barnes & Noble)
Phagan’s Beauty College - 1310 NE Cushing Drive
Bras From Bend
The oldest continuing
women’s service organization in Bend.
Soroptimist International of Bend, Oregon is a non-profit organization that has been helping women and children in Central Oregon for 81 years. The first Soroptimist club was formed in 1921 by a group of 80 women in Oakland, California. SI Bend was chartered in August of 1943.
The name, Soroptimist, means “best for women,” and that’s what the organization strives to achieve. Soroptimists are women at their best, working to help other women to be their best.
Soroptimist is an international organization for business and professional women who work to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. Almost 95,000 Soroptimists in about 120 countries and territories contribute time and financial support to community-based and international projects that benefit women and girls