Donate your cell phone to a Community Health Worker

FrontineSMS:Medic recently launched Hope Phones, a mobile phone collection campaign to support their program to give mobile phones to clinics and community health workers in over 30 countries.

How will my phone make an impact?

Every cell phone given to community health workers connects distant patients to a medical clinic. A $10 cell phone will give 50 families access to emergency medical care, health information, transport services, and clinic resources.

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When your old phone is received by the recycling center, it is given a value. We’ll use this value to purchase appropriate, usable cell phones for community health workers at the medical clinics. The average donated phone in the US will allow us to purchase 2-3 cell phones for clinics.

From the campaign site:

How will your phone make an impact?

“Every cell phone given to community health workers connects distant patients to a medical clinic. A $10 cell phone will give 50 families access to emergency medical care, health information, transport services, and clinic resources.”

“When your old phone is received by the recycling center, it is given a value. We’ll use this value to purchase appropriate, usable cell phones for community health workers at the medical clinics. The average donated phone in the US will allow us to purchase 2-3 cell phones for clinics.

Check out the campaign website: HopePhones.org

Check out the the mHealth project website: http://medic.frontlinesms.com/