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Donate Your Old Phone to Hope Phones

What if your old phone could change the world? With Hope Phones, a new campaign by FrontlineSMS:Medic, you can.

Hope Phones takes recycled phones and puts them to work on the front lines of global health. Using basic phones, simple laptops and the free software called FrontlineSMS, any rural health clinic can better keep track of patient records, enable mobile field diagnostics, and open better communication between community health workers and the home clinic.

One donated phone can bring anywhere from 50-250 families onto the health grid.

http://www.hopephones.org

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  1. kumbukani kuntiya

    kumbukani kuntiya @ 02:04AM PT Nov 06

    a just cause, will assist to make it a reality especially for Malawi where it has already made a difference amongst my brothers and sisters.

  2. Sheryl Ashford

    Sheryl Ashford @ 09:17PM PT Nov 05

    Because I believe every little bit helps!

  3. Jeff Chung

    Jeff Chung @ 12:39AM PT Aug 27

    It makes sense.

  4. Miss Vikki Parsons

    Miss Vikki Parsons Reading, PA @ 11:25PM PT Aug 11
    Pledge fulfilled Aug 11!

    Im getting my phone out now, and since i cant print out the postage ill pay for it myself.

  5. Casey Cox Three Rivers, MI @ 11:58AM PT Aug 11
    Pledge fulfilled Aug 11!

    We all just got boost phones so I had 4 old phones just laying around. Couldn't think of a better use for them.

  6. starvin marvin

    starvin marvin Hooterville, North Dakota, and Taffee, Minnesota and Big Beavers, OR @ 02:16PM PT Aug 07
    Pledge fulfilled Aug 07!

    IN A THIRD WORLD VILLAGE, A PERSON CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A LIVING BY HAVING A CELL PHONE AND CHARGING OTHERS A NOMINAL FEE FOR USING IT.  THESE ENTERPRISING INDIVIDUALS CAN GET MICRO LOANS TO BUY A CELL PHONE.  IMAGINE THAT, BEING SO POOR, YOU HAVE TO TAKE OUT A LOAN TO BUY A CELL PHONE.  AND THEN YOU BECOME A BUSINESS PERSON BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE EVEN HAS A CELL PHONE IN YOUR WHOLE VILLAGE.

  7. Loring Resler

    Loring Resler @ 06:21PM PT Jun 15

    Happy to do so--what an easy way to help global health equity in this throw-away society we live in! 

  8. Sandra Indacochea

    Sandra Indacochea @ 08:35AM PT Jun 09

    For me its important because instead of giving it away or give it to a telephone company to be refurbished and sell again in the third world, you can recycle your old phone and help others.

  9. r s

    r s holmen, WI @ 08:29AM PT May 18

    Excellent !  I have 2 phones i can donate :) smile

  10. Josh Nesbit

    Josh Nesbit @ 06:32AM PT May 18

    Just launched this campaign! It would mean a lot to these clinics if you could sign on, too.

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