Mobile Phone Recycling
Phones for Vans - Wanted Dead or Alive
An appeal with a difference
A unique offer to CfC from Mercedes UK and Dixons is converting mobile phones into new vehicles. Yes 4000 phones or the equivalent of £40,000= One new modified Mercedes Lorry which is urgently needed to help us help desperately needed Children, Orphanages and Schools across Eastern Europe.
It's hard to imagine small children lacking shoes, clothing and basic sanitation and having to beg for food in places where the temperature regularly plummets below -20C. Sadly it's a picture we see to frequently and urgently need your help to change these situations.
Phones for Vans, is working but more vehicles are needed to assist further communities with life improving solutions, transportation of resources and volunteers to places of need, including Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo, etc
Support includes;
- Christmas Shoe box appeal for Older people
- Medical supplies for hospitals and clinics
- Disability project support
- Resources for schools
- Humanitarian aid
- Building and developmental support
Needed: Basic medical supplies, Children's football shirts, Audio recording and copying equipment, Braille items and equipment for the blind and Visually Impaired, plus financial support to get it there. (Thank you British Airways for your support in Albania)
Did You Know? Just 4% of mobile phones are recycled in the UK ??
In plain terms millions of old, broken unwanted and unloved mobile phones are still laying in cupboards and drawers gathering dust across the UK.
Such a waste when they CAN be put to good use !!!!
Our thanks include Sir Richard Branson, Kate Winslett, Joanna Hogg, ScottishPower, NHS Nurses Direct, NEC Computers Ltd, Dobcroft Junior School - Sheffield, Hailsham Community College, Sussex Police authority, Stafford and Lewes Prison's, Hampshire Ambulance Service, Westminster Chapel, Hastings Fire services for collecting phones. 4000 more are needed.
Drop off points include: M D Furnishers - SE26 5DQ. Data Developments - Wolverhampton Science Park. All Nations Church - Clapham Park. Pathway Books - Hastings. Southpoint Electrical stores - Crowborough, Mayfield. Uckfield Volunteer bureau, Dublin, Brittany and Shetland Islands.
Interested !!! Can you help. Extend the net and become a collecting point in your school, office or church. Posters and collecting boxes available. Give us a call !!!
Please don't just bin it, send them in. "Dead or Alive" We know they are out there. Phones, chargers, accessories all will help us to reach the target.
Contact: mobiles@computersforcharities.org
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