"Hearts To Home" Phone-a-Thon Hopes To Give Soldiers A Call Home
19.05.12
It sounds simple, people here at home raising money so that military personnel stationed abroad can contact their families using international calling cards; and in 2008, the program was conceived and designed by students at Bronxville High School .
Now in their fourth year, Hearts to Home has raised well over $100,000, which represents around 7000 calling cards shipped or 2,000,000 minutes of calling time home.
Last year was their first phone-a-thon, which raised nearly $10,000 on it's own.
In the beginning of March, they will be conducting their second annual Hearts to Home Phone-a-thon, which entails calling members of the community and asking them to pledge in order to raise money to buy calling cards.
The idea was inspired four years ago from photos of soldiers at Camp Bucca in Iraq that the students saw on a local village web site and also from advice from a soldier stationed at the Camp.
Feeling empowered by what they saw, the students decided to focus their support on fundraising to buy prepaid phone cards to send to soldiers so they can call home more easily on holidays and all during their time in Iraq.
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