Cell Phones for Soldiers is a national non-profit charity that recycles
old cell phones and in return, provides our fighting forces with pre-paid
phone cards to call home. Each old cell phone turned in translates
into about 60 minutes of free talk time for our troops and their loved
ones on the homefront. Since 2004, Cell Phones for Soldiers has sent
over 60 million minutes of free talk time to our troops. The Hampton Roads
Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America (HRCMOAA) &
the Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU) are partnering in this win-win program
to turn old cell phones into phone cards to help our troops call home.
COL Jim Edge, USA-Ret. is leading the effort within HRCMOAA and
working closely with Teresa Bower, Business Account Specialist and
Lynne Hancock, Business Services Supervisor at Navy Federal, and
Joanne Steen, Author on line-of-duty loss with Grief Solutions.
The NFCU has 21 branch offices as “Drop Off” collection points. Old cell
phones and other PDA devices are still actively being collected.
Shown above is Jim Edge with, from the left, Teresa Bower, Joanne Steen,
and Lynne Hancock, packaging 162 old cell phones collected by the chapter
and NFCU for shipping to the designated recycling activity. This
amounts to almost 10,000 minutes of talk time for our service members and
wounded warriors. The packing activity took place at the Collins
Square Shopping Center Branch in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Photo by CDR John Vermillion,
USN-Ret., Hampton Roads Chapter Publicity and Photographer. |
