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Do you own an old or Broken Mobile Phone? - Donate It and Change Lives!!!


October 3, 2009 -- Once your mobile phone has been broken or you have upgraded to a newer model, if you are anything like me, the old one ends up in a drawer of mess, waiting to be thrown out in an environmentally safe way.

Do you have any phones like this laying around - or are you planning on upgrading your current phone, and know that you will soon have this spare that you never will use again?

For you, it is essentially garbage. Why not turn this piece of "garbage" into something that will transform the lives of people in an entire community? All it costs you is your "garbage" of a phone, an envelope, postage and the time it takes to get it in the mail!

Not a bad deal is it? Your garbage transforming lives? Read on!

Have you heard the saying: “If a man is hungry and you give him a fish, he will be hungry again tomorrow. If you teach a man to fish, he will never go hungry again.”?

In many places where there are great needs, there is nothing more people would dream for than to be “taught to fish”. Being able to provide for oneself and one’s own family is something most people would prefer, instead of just accepting handouts.

In Uganda there is a community group called Balamu Community Group that is working according to this principle of teaching a “man to fish”. Peter Eron is working very hard for the Balamu Community Group on their many different projects, all which address the different problems and challenges this community faces.

Peter writes about a Mobile Phone Repairs Program: “the project of new modern technology of repairing mobile phones. This program will create jobs to the youths for self sustainance. Let us pass a message to well-wishers to collect for us break, faulty and damaged mobile phones to boast up this program. The workershop for this project is able to repair faulty cell phones and be sold again to get funds for the projects of the community.i.e poutry keeping, bricks laying, hand made crafts and G.nuts, maize & beans growing!

The targets of these projects is to create income generating activities among the community goups at large for them to be able to send their children to school, for self sustainance and to create a smile on their faces.”

So instead of “teaching a man to fish” - why not “let him repair a phone”? If you have damaged mobile phones, why not donate what is rubbish for you to a those who can turn that ruined phone into income that in turn will be reinvested in other income generating projects? Your old phone might be the start of a new life for many!

Teach a Man to Fish - Or Let Him Repair a Phone!

Send your phones to the address below. And while you are at it, perhaps you can send this request on to your friends and family? On Facebook, through e-mail and make a poster and put it up at your local supermarket.

Send phones to:
Esther Senteza
P.O.BOX 71400
KAMPALA-UGANDA
E-AFRICA

You can also read more about the Balamu Community Group and see photos from their different projects on http://www.petereron.blog.com/

Contact:

Linda May Kallestein
journalist/writer
telephone + 47 - 942 948 71
http://www.lindamaykallestein.com


Monique Lester
London Digital PR
+44 7958 411653
http://www.londondigitalpr.com

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