Urgent request for your old mobile phones

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Catenian Louis van den Berg writes:

Matumaini Centre for Children with Disability in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, was founded some ten years ago by the Holy Union Sisters (LSU). With no landline telephones and unreliable postage, a mobile phone is essential for communication, education and money transactions. Some mothers at the Centre even use their phones to play soothing music when their children become disturbed. But most of them have barely enough to live on as it is.

I am therefor asking if you could dig out any old mobiles you, your family or your work colleagues might have to spare and send them to me. Smartphones are obviously favourite, but I am told that any relatively recent mobile will be welcome.
Ideally, could you include chargers and cables?

It is up to you to take out the SIM card and wipe the phone if necessary.

Think of it. That old phone which is languishing in a drawer could literally provide a lifeline for a disabled child and its mother.

For more information please email: louisvdb@me.com