Meet a broker who is helping women beyond Aussie borders
Meet Anita Marshall, a NSW broker who is helping women beyond Aussie borders.
Marshall of Advanced Finance Solutions is a good deed personified.
She is a founding member of The Sisterhood of Bras, a group of women united by social media since 2015, who provide donated bras to women of the South Pacific unable to afford them.
Their Facebook group has over 260 members who collect and bring bras to women of the Pacific Islands, from New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the Cook Islands and beyond, as well as back home at the Kalumburu Mission in WA.
“The response has been overwhelming,” Marshall says.
“There have been times when we can barely eat our lunch in there [the back office] because we’ve got so many bags of bras.
“I’ve had ladies cry when they received their first bras because they got so excited.”
Marshall also donates materials to local teacher Mary in Vanuatu for parents who cannot afford school fees.
“[Mary works] completely voluntarily out of a tiny room at the side of her house, and she teaches about 60 kids a day.”
Marshall of Advanced Finance Solutions is a good deed personified.
She is a founding member of The Sisterhood of Bras, a group of women united by social media since 2015, who provide donated bras to women of the South Pacific unable to afford them.
Their Facebook group has over 260 members who collect and bring bras to women of the Pacific Islands, from New Caledonia and Vanuatu to the Cook Islands and beyond, as well as back home at the Kalumburu Mission in WA.
“The response has been overwhelming,” Marshall says.
“There have been times when we can barely eat our lunch in there [the back office] because we’ve got so many bags of bras.
“I’ve had ladies cry when they received their first bras because they got so excited.”
Marshall also donates materials to local teacher Mary in Vanuatu for parents who cannot afford school fees.
“[Mary works] completely voluntarily out of a tiny room at the side of her house, and she teaches about 60 kids a day.”
Fast facts:
4 bra collection points in NSW and Qld
$80/yr cost of sending a child to school in Vanuatu (about a month’s wages)
$30 average cost of a bra in Vanuatu (about a fortnight’s wages
4 bra collection points in NSW and Qld
$80/yr cost of sending a child to school in Vanuatu (about a month’s wages)
$30 average cost of a bra in Vanuatu (about a fortnight’s wages
