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 2007. 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.
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.
Americans will replace an estimated 130 million cell phones this year,
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.
Please
look for the Cell Phone donation box in the church office to deposit
your old cell phones to be donated to this worthy cause.
