I am so touched.
There are two kids (teen agers) that wanted to make a difference. They began researching a way to get phone time to our soldiers to call home, to stay in touch with their families.
These two kids have done an amzing thing.

Most of us can reach our loved ones with the press of a few buttons. But that's not the case for soldiers in Iraq.

Our soldiers have to pay for their own calls home. It costs a lot of money.

These two amazing youngsters have teamed up with ATT. ATT now has opened up over 1800 places to donate your old phone. For every phone donated, they get a phone card for 60 minutes.
These kids have sent over 100,000 cards to soldiers.
They cannot contact these soldiers on their own because it is classified where they are to the public.
So, the soldiers are contacting them to give addresses to receive these cards.

ATT has done a remarkable thing: they just presented these two kids with a 100,000 dollar scholarship to any college of thei choice, each. Isn't that wonderful? Just in time too. They are 15 and 16 now. They started this when she was just 13.

One soldier from Massachusetts recently rang up a $7,000 cell phone bill that neither he nor his family could pay.

But thanks to 13-year-old Brittany Bergquist (search), who with the help of her brother started "Cell Phones for Soldiers," phoning home is now easier for men and women fighting in the war.

"If they can't call home, their families have no idea if they're OK or not," said Bergquist, who has a cousin overseas.

The youngster even collected old phones and some cash from her seventh-grade class.

"They actually gave me their snack money and their ice cream money just to help it get off the ground."

When Brittany brought the $21 she'd collected from classmates to her local bank, the bank was so impressed by her initiative they threw in $500 for the cause. And the donations continue to grow.

And after working the phones and e-mail to drum up support, just last week Brittany got a surprise call.

"We got a call from the White House saying the president is very proud of what we're doing and that when he was in the Massachusetts area, he wanted to come meet us."

Brittany is now trying to get long-distance companies to donate phones and service. Soon her project could help faraway soldiers feel that much closer to home.

For more information about the Cell Phones for Soldiers, visit: www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com. Or send an e-mail to: cellphonesforsoldiers@yahoo.com.

You may also send a check, money order or pre-paid phone card to:

Cellphones for Soldiers
C/O South Shore Savings Bank
5 Assinippi Avenue
Norwell, MA 02061

Additionally, you may send any old or unused cell phones to: any ATT phone center.

Wonderful
Kat

You reap waht you sew, and it works for 'good' too.

Thanks for this scttrbrain

AWSOME!!! I have several cell phone i will donate.Thanks a bunch..........

I just saw them on the view. AT&T gave each one, each, 100,000 dollar scholarships to the college of their choice!

Yup; that is what inspired me to post this.
Kat

Its great that these kids used their heads, came up with a plan, got ahold of companies, no wishful thinking on their part. They had an idea to help those that are serving.....and DID SOMETHING!!!!

Its a great road to enterprise in the future as well...i SEE big things for these kids in the future...

AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!

These young people are the hope, that I cling to, that there IS a future, based in compassion.


Thankyou Kat for sharing..

Da Nada Jess. I love hearing things like this.
Kat