MOAA’s Auxiliary Member Advisory Committee (AMAC) has launched a project to turn old cell phones into phone cards so deployed service members can call home. The AMAC is working with Cell Phones for Soldiers, which recycles old cell phones and, in return, provides our fighting forces with prepaid phone cards they can use to call home. Each recycled cell phone translates into about 60 minutes of free talk time.
The AMAC is asking chapter members to help them meet their goal of donating 1 million minutes of prepaid talk time. That means they need to collect about 16,700 old cell phones. We will have collection boxes at every meeting, as well as working to place them in areas around town.
This is a great project for our chapter. It’s one more way to make a difference by helping deployed service members stay in touch with their loved ones.
This project is collecting and recycling clean (no data) cell phones only; batteries, chargers, and other accessories are not required and will only be disposed of at the recycle point, so doing so beforehand helps us ship less weight to the recycle point.
Information on getting started is available by either downloading the AMAC’s information packet at www.moaa.org/cellsforsoldiers or you can simply bring your old “clean” cell phone to a Chapter meeting. Or you can open the PDF at the bottom of the page to see the full AMAC packet for the program.
Cell Phones for Soldiers has provided more than 60 million minutes of free talk time to our troops since it was founded in 2004 by then-teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist of Norwell, Mass. A nonprofit organization, Cell Phones for Soldiers holds an impressive four-star rating from Charity Navigator.
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