Making a Difference - Cell Phones for Soldiers

Can you and I make a difference
in the lives of total strangers?

Two busy high school teens, brother and sister, from Norwell, MA decided they could make a difference. The same week a cousin deployed to Iraq, they saw a TV program highlighting another soldier’s plight -- trying to pay off $7,000 in phone calls to his family back in the states.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

“If you lend money only to those who can repay you,

what good is that?
Even the most wicked will lend to their own kind for full return!”
Do good wherever you have opportunity,

and don’t worry about repayment.
Then your reward from heaven will be very great.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

These kids launched a program “Cell Phones for Soldiers,” -- they collect old cell phones and sell them for recycling. With their first modest income, they purchased 60-minute phone cards, and sent them to overseas soldiers. Their project has grown to fully engage all their spare time, and their parents’ as well, with some 400,000 phone cards shipped over the past 3 years.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
“The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood,

all having the same Principle, or Father;

and blessed is that man

who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it,

seeking his own in another's good.”

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Read their story.