{"id":15929,"date":"2013-12-22T12:12:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/soroptimists-farrington-court-host-successful-fundraiser-at-reds-wine-bar\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T02:15:39","slug":"soroptimists-farrington-court-host-successful-fundraiser-at-reds-wine-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/soroptimists-farrington-court-host-successful-fundraiser-at-reds-wine-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimists, Farrington Court host successful fundraiser at Reds Wine Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>The Soroptimist International of Kent and the Farrington Court Retirement Community recently hosted a Free the Girls Bra Drive fundraiser at Reds Wine Bar at Kent Station.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The Free the Girls campaign gives women who were rescued from sex trafficking a chance to improve their lives. Formerly trafficked women try to earn funds to continue their education or make a living to support themselves. The campaign provides job opportunities to those women.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A common means to earn money in third world countries is for women to sell new and used bras to other women. This income-making method allows women to fund their education and support themselves in a way they never thought possible.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Soroptimist International&#8217;s primary focus is to help women and girls improve their lives in areas of education and home life.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Besides the Free the Girls campaign, local Soroptimists&#8217; service projects include the annual Cold Weather Coat and Clothing Drive for Homeless Children, the Women&#8217;s Opportunity Award, community cash awards and services to local organizations such as the YWCA, DAWN, Kent Food Bank, Genesis Project and others.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Soroptimist International of Kent and the Farrington Court Retirement Community recently hosted a Free the Girls Bra Drive fundraiser at Reds Wine Bar at Kent Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":15930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15929"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}