Hello,
As a part of our community outreach efforts, we are happy to announce a company-wide initiative to help Secure the Call (a non-profit organization based out of Takoma Park, MD) collect used cell phones. Secure the Call takes donated phones and converts them to 911 emergency-only phones that are then given out to members of the community across the USA at no charge. We have set up a collection barrel in our office so that you will be able to donate your old cell phones and chargers to this wonderful cause.
The barrels will be located at Phone Shop Tri-Cities in Kennewick and Phone Shop Yakima in Union Gap. If you have a wall or car charger, please donate them as well. If you don’t have the chargers for your phones, it’s not a problem. Secure the Call has plenty of extra chargers.
Secure the Call is a National Coalition of over 400 organizations, including Police and Sheriff’s Departments, Domestic Violence Shelters and Senior Citizen groups that demonstrate a need for emergency 911-only cell phones. Secure the Call collects the phones and then wipes them clean of any service, numbers and address books. The phones are then reprogrammed for 911-only service and sent back to their Coalition Partners throughout the USA who, in turn, distribute them for free to the community. As an example, Secure the Call gives phones to senior citizens that take a driver refresher course given by the AARP.
As an added bonus, your cell phone deduction is tax deductible. After you’ve donated a phone, go to http://www.securethecall.org/phones/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/tax-form.pdf to print a tax deduction form.
Your help is greatly appreciated and needed. Please bring in your old cell phones from home and drop them off in the collection barrel so that we can help members of the community feel a little safer. If it's easier you can even mail them to us.
Thank you,
Phone Shop Tri-Cities
www.phoneshopyakima.com
(509)-820-3737
