"Cell Phones for Soldiers" Program
I recently got a cell phone for emergencies and, packed with it, was a bag to mail & make use of old, unwanted, unused phones. I thought the cause was worthy enough to pass along.
Here is a brief excerpt from CellphoneforSoldiers.com:
The Cell Phones for Soldiers program was started in April 2004 by 13-year-old Brittany Bergquist and her 12-year-old brother Robbie of Norwell, Massachusetts......
Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to turn old cell phones into more than 12 million minutes of prepaid calling cards for U.S. troops stationed overseas in 2008. To do so, Cell Phones for Soldiers expects to collect 15,000 cell phones each month through a network of more than 3,000 collection sites across the country.
The phones are sent to ReCellular, which pays Cell Phones for Soldiers for each donated phone – enough to provide an hour of talk time to soldiers abroad.
“Americans will replace an estimated 130 million cell phones this year,” says Mike Newman, vice president of ReCellular, “with the majority of phones either discarded or stuffed in a drawer. Most people don’t realize that the small sacrifice of donating their unwanted phones can have a tremendous benefit for a worthy cause like Cell Phones for Soldiers.”
Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501c3 non-profit organization has raised almost $1 million in donations and distributed more than 400,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers serving overseas.
READ MORE AT Welcome to Cell Phones for Soldiers!
(Be sure to visit their FAQs Page)
To go directly to "where to donate" phone, go here: Cell Phones for Soldiers - Donate a Phone
Let your freinds & relatives know about the program. Thank you.
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