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December 29th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda No one likes to throw away perfectly good electronics when they upgrade, and a Verizon Wireless program allows customers to extend the good will of the holiday season by donating their obsolete devices for a good cause.
Noting that nearly one in four women, one in nine men, and more than 3 million children in the United States have been affected by domestic violence, Verizon donates returned phones, batteries and accessories to participating agencies and organizations around the country that help them. And since it helps the environment by reducing electronic waste, everybody wins.
Long History of Help
Participating agencies include the Family Violence Prevention Fund, the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, The Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence, Resource for Women Their Families Inc., and Break the Cycle.
The HopeLine program, begun in 1995 when Verizon was still called Bell Atlantic Mobile, aims to help domestic violence victims and their families rebuild their lives. The program began offering free voice mailboxes for people living in shelters as well as free phones. The phones can also serve as a vital link to emergency or support services during a crisis.
The program has so far collected more than 8 million phones, awarded more than $10 million in cash grants to agencies and organizations, distributed more than 106,000 phones with more than 319 million minutes of free service, and properly disposed of nearly 1.7 million no-longer-used wireless phones in an environmentally sound way. That amounts to more than 210 tons of electronic waste and batteries out of landfills, Verizon estimates.
Those who want to donate their phones can go to any Verizon store or online at www.verizonwireless.com/hopelinemailinglabel to print out a postage-paid shipping label for mail-in returns. SIM cards and removable storage such as microSD cards should be removed before mailing. Donations to the program, however, are not tax-deductible.
Millions of Replacements
Donating phones for charity is becoming more popular as nearly all Americans have them and regularly upgrade them. CTIA, the telecommunications association, estimates that there were 327.6 million connected devices with wireless contracts in the second quarter of this year.
The Web site phones4charity.org collects cell phones for non-profit organizations and does provide a tax receipt. The site also helps individuals organize phone drives for charity as well as other resources.
“This was a bigger deal several years ago,” says technology consultant Jeff Kagan. “Today, customers can get inexpensive new phones for $15, and $10 a month for service through prepaid companies. Wireless is becoming so important today there are several ways for people to get in [and get new phones].”
Verizon rival ATT also collects cell phones for a good cause, recycling them and using the proceeds from drop-off sites across the country to support Cell Phones for Soldiers, which has raised more than $1 million and distributed more than 75,000 prepaid phone cards to soldiers overseas.
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