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The Lighthouse has over 175 stories like Glenda’s from last year alone. The Lighthouse has also provided over 500 pairs of glasses and 600 hearing aids to Georgians in need over the last year. They recycle over 100,000 pairs of eyeglasses a year to send on medical relief missions. That is what the Georgia Lions Lighthouse Foundation is about–helping restore the sight and hearing of others.
How can the public help? By donating old cell phones to the Lighthouse’s Cells for Sight Program. The cell phone collection program provides revenue for sight surgeries like Glenda’s. The cell phones that have been collected have already paid for three surgeries this year.
Through working with cell phone recycling giant PaceButler Corporation, the Lighthouse has raised $10,000 for their sight program. Their goal is to collect 100,000 cell phones, so they’re asking individuals as well as businesses to get involved and collect phones on their behalf.
The cell phones collected not only help the Lighthouse and their projects, they also help the environment. Environmental Protection Agency regulations state that toxic items such as cell phones should be kept out of landfills because of their destructive effect on the environment. Cell phones are constructed of materials known as ‘persistent toxins’ that don’t easily decompose after disposal. By donating your old cell phones, you can help to ensure they do not end up in landfills.
Contact the Lighthouse at (404) 325-3630 for a location to donate used cell phones. For more information on how you can help, visit http://www.lionslighthouse.org Or, to find a charity in your area where you can donate cell phones, go to http://www.AmericanCellPhoneDrive.org
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That sounds like an excellent program. The way people replace cell phone nowadays, it should be a great way to fundraise. Thanks for sharing information about this organzation; it sounds like they are indispensable.
This is a great idea. I know people right now that don’t know what to do with their old cell phones? Great way to get rid of them and help someone else out. Thank you for passing this along.
It’s nice to know that programs like this are actually helping regular folks. We need more of them!
Let’s just say that I now know what I’m going to do with those extra cell phones that are lying around my house!
Sharon, I think that’s an excellent program to have. The amount of unused cell phones out there should be put to better use instead of just rotting away, especially with how phones just evolve with new models almost daily. I have my own fair share of old cells, and I’ll check out the website to locate a donation center near my place, if they do have one. Nice post.
I just went through a big move and during the packing, I never realized how much a pack rat I was because I found my old phones (and my husband’s) stashed away in the garage. Some of them were even dating back to when we had those big cream cell phones bigger than my purse
I gave them away to charity and saved from adding to the unnecessary landfill!
I passed this on to a friend that has quite a collection going of old cell phones that he didn’t know what to do with. He had never heard of this either. Thank you so much for posting about this.
this is a novel idea and I would like to help….thanks for sharing the information….