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Instructions for Recycling Your Mobile Devices

Help Inc. Foundation is a mobile devices recycling resource. If you have spare mobile phones, pagers or PDAs sitting on a shelf or in a drawer, you can recycle them here in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Help Inc. Foundation is working on a major mobile phone recycling initiative. It’s designed to capture idle mobile phones in North America and redeploy them, solving an environmental problem, raising funds for Help Inc. Foundation and bridging the digital divide. The program offers an easy way to solve the dilemma that many mobile phone users face: how to properly dispose of idle, used devices.

Some of the redeployed phones will be used by Help Inc. Foundation's in-country field staff to more efficiently manage community empowerment projects. These phones provide affordable, modern communication in countries where the majority of the citizens have never enjoyed the benefits of telecommunications.

Multiple Recycling Stations pay Help Inc. Foundation for the remaining phones and readies them for sale in developing countries. Proceeds from the sale of these phones will be used by Help Inc. Foundation to further its mission -- essentially converting idle mobile phones into food, housing and education programs throughout the world.

Millions of the idle mobile phones are simply sitting in drawers and on shelves of individuals and companies, where they will most likely stay until they are thrown in the trash. This poses a potential environmental problem, since mobile phones contain toxic materials such as cadmium, lead, mercury and gallium arsenide. By taking a few simple steps to recycle these mobile phones, potential environmental damage is averted. Recycling mobile phones preserves the environment, provides support for Help Inc. Foundation's humanitarian activities and improves lives by bridging the digital divide through affordable telecommunications.



Help Inc. Foundation can make it easy for you, your company, school, religious or civic organizations to support Help Inc Foundation by recycling your old mobile phones. Start by finding out who has an
older phone they no longer use. Collect phones from individuals, or ask your company to donate out-of-service corporate phones. It's simple and it's free. Best of all, it's a great way to contribute to Help Inc. Foundation's community empowerment projects.

Benefits of the Help Inc. Foundation Volunteer Mobile Phone Collection Program:

• An easy way to get your organization involved in a worthy cause
• Free shipping for all donated phones sent in through this program
• All phones donated are eligible as a tax-deduction

Getting Started:

If you are interested in recycling used mobile phones, pagers and PDA’s, we will send you a collection kit that will get you started. Your kit will include:

• Step-by-step guidelines on how to conduct a successful mobile phone collection
• Sample text to announce the program via e-mail to all employees
• Signage to use near the collection box
• Donation forms to record each gift

     
 
 
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