LCHS
Leaf Club and Lincoln PD partner with Cell Phones for Soldiers to
provide troops with free calls home
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[January 22, 2015]
LINCOLN - The Lincoln Police
Department, Lincoln Community High School LEAF Club, and nonprofit
Cell Phones For Soldiers Inc. are asking residents to help our
troops call home by donating old cellular phones and cords. Although
the military landscape is ever changing, as many as 200,000 troops
are serving in the United States military overseas around the world.
By donating to Cell Phones For Soldiers, Lincoln residents can
provide a lifeline for America’s bravest.
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Beginning today, residents can donate their phones
at the Lincoln Community High Schools Assistant Principals Office in
the circle drive between 8am and 3pm or the Lincoln Police
Department 24 hours a day. Our goal is over 1000 phones for 2015!
Cell Phones For Soldiers was founded in 2004 by teenagers Robbie and
Brittany Bergquist at the ages of 12 and 13. The charity has since
provided more than 210 million minutes of free talk time to
servicemen and women stationed around the world through its calling
card program, Minutes That Matter. Funds raised from the recycling
of cellular phones are used to purchase prepaid international
calling cards. On average, Cell Phones For Soldiers distributes
3,200 calling cards each week to bases around the world, care
package programs, deployment ceremonies and VA hospitals.
![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2015/Jan/16/images/ads/current/LPL_small%201.gif) Donated phones are sent to Mindful eCycling for recycling. For every
donated phone valued at $5, Cell Phones For Soldiers is able to
provide two and a half hours of free talk time to deployed troops.
Approximately half of the phones Mindful eCycling processes are
reconditioned and reused.
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![](http://archives.lincolndailynews.com/2015/Jan/16/images/ads/current/christian_village_lda_061014.png) Phones and components that cannot be refurbished are
dismantled and responsibly recycled to reclaim materials,
including:
- Gold, silver and platinum from circuit boards
- Copper wiring from phone chargers
- Nickel, iron, cadmium and lead from battery packs
- Plastic from phone cases and accessories
For more information, please visit
www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com or contact Assistant
Principal Rhonda Hyde at LCHS 217-732-4131 ext. 224 or Officer
Butterfield at 217-732-4131 ext. 607.
[LCHS Assistant Principal Rhonda
Hyde]
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