"GW+Phones=Hope" Kickoff Rally

The university held the "GW + Phones = Hope" kick-off rally today as part of a university-wide campaign to collect 20,000 used cell phones by March 2012. GW announced the commitment on Oct. 6 as host of the 2012 Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) Meeting in March. GW will collect the used cell phones and other portable electronic devices and work with an organization called Hope Phones to recycle them. The proceeds from the recycling program will go to fund maternal and child mobile technology health projects in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nepal.

Special guest speakers at the rally included Chelsea Clinton, William J. Clinton Foundation board member, and Christy Turlington Burns, founder of Every Mother Counts, an advocacy and mobilization campaign to increase education and support for maternal and child health. In addition, ABC News' Emmy-award winning journalist Juju Chang, Kathy Calvin, CEO of the United Nations Foundation, and Tierney O'Dea, campaign manager for Hope Phones also spoke at the rally.




Phones and other portable electronic devices can be donated by downloading a pre-paid mailing label at http://www.gwu.edu/donate-phones or at designated collection sites.

Visit www.gwu.edu/donate-phones for more information

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