Originally posted by UncleWeed over at the Fearless City site. The image was done by Kris Krug and posted on Flickr. This is our campaign announcement for the Phones for Fearless drive. And don’t forget about us after Christmas, while you’re all bonding with your shiny new iPhones! The campaign continues into early January.
And lookie! We’ve got WIDGETS!!!
Donate your old mobile phones to help DTES artists share stories, and tap into life, jobs & family
- Your used mobile phones – preferably with video, camera, wi-fi
- Cash donations (* tax deductible) or new phone donations
- Conversation – tell your friends on your blog, twitter, etc. – post a badge
First, Gather phones!
Next, Arrange Pick-up:
- Let us know via Twitter: Fearless City, email: info (at) fearlessmedia (dot) ca, Phone/SMS: 604.644.4349, Voice mail: 604.682.3269 xt 8320
- We’ll come by on purple Yahoo bikes on Tues. Dec. 23rd & 30th to collect your devices
- We’ll take your photo, bring treats, and thank you publicly with a link
Or, Drop-off (after Tuesday, 23rd) at:
- Roundhouse Community Centre – 181 Roundhouse Mews
- Pathways – 390 Main Street (kitty corner from the Canegie)
- Raincity Studios – 1 Alexander St. @ Water st.
Want to be a drop-off point? Let us know.
Even send by Postal Mail to:
Fearless City
c/o DTES CAN
PO Box 88023
418 Main St
Vancouver, BC V6A 4A4
Notes:
- Remove your chip, and clear your contacts before donating (all phones will be completely cleared before released).
- Please include chargers and accessories – used digital cameras also welcome
- Unusable phones will be donated to FreeGeek for reuse and recycling
Who is Fearless?
- About Fearless City
- Fearless City wiki
- Fearless City community site at W2
- Fearless City Youtube channel
- Fearless City Flickr photos
- Fearless City Flickr group
- DTES on Wikipedia
Thank you for your support!
Post a graphic on your site with this handy code snippet (and thanks to Hummingbird604 for help with the very fiddly code):
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<a href=”http://www.fearlesscity.ca” target=”_blank”>Donate used mobile phones to help DTES residents and artists at fearlesscity.ca</a>
If it doesn’t work, check your quotation marks. They have a tendency to go haywire when you paste things into your widgets.
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we donated mine to the women’s shelter as an emergency phone for women. as long as the phone can carry a charge, if they dial 911, the carrier has to let the call through to the emergency service. i’m glad that a woman, who wouldn’t otherwise have wireless access to the police will have it because i wanted a flip phone (can we say star trek fan?) but the other phone was perfectly serviceable still.
Yep, our phones do that as well. Not all our participants know that, though; one woman was beaten up when she was interviewing someone in a bar, because two guys thought she was trying to film them. If she’d known about the 911 thing, she could have had them arrested.
(Coming here from Netchick’s site, who says Hello!) What an awesome idea! I have a really old cell. Not sure it’s good any more. But if someone can use it, I’d happily donate it, assuming it is still sitting on the shelf.
By all means. Phones that cannot be reused will be donated to Freegeek for recycling, so it’s all good. Thanks so much for your support!
Awesome cause, and good for you for spreading out the word!
Hi RC, I just came across this link in my email, I missed the season but I still have a beautiful phone to donate. I can still drop it off at Carnegie right? Anytime?
Not at Carnegie, but you can drop it off at Raincity Studios, above Chill Winston on Maple Tree Square. We’d really appreciate it.
What’s funny is, we’ve had some very high-end phone donations, but not ONE iPhone. I think it’s a religion.