Calling All Cell Phones

This is the article that I wrote for the Mom’s Club Newsletter. If you have a cell phone or clothes that you’d like to donate… let me know and I’ll make arrangements to grab it from ya!

Calling All Cell Phones

My 2 year old, has the worst case of, “You have that, I want it” anyone has ever seen. We’ve been working on sharing, but it’s hard for him. In fact, if he sees his 4 month old brother with a toy, he immediately finds a new one for baby brother and swaps it out for the one that brother is holding. About 3 seconds after that, he decides that maybe the toy he gave up when taking the first one away is the one that he wants. He almost always ends up taking both toys and after a brief intervention from Mommy, throws himself on the floor in a supreme fit of rage.

It’s hard being two years old.

This month, let’s show our kids that we are great at sharing and lend a hand to women in need by donating used cell phones and/or business attire for the Women's Commission Domestic Violence Services and Displaced Homemaker Program. Let the kids’ help you pick an outfit to donate, or drop a phone in the donation box so they too can be part of the fun.

Your donation will go to the Domestic Violence Advocacy Council based in Charlotte, NC who in response to the growing number of domestic violence cases has created a program for old cell phones to be collected. These phones allow victims to call 911 even if the phone does not have an active service plan. These phones are given to current or potential victims of domestic violence through the Women's Commission, the Shelter for Battered Women, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's DV-Unit, and Department of Social Services.

The Women's Commission also hosts a Displaced Homemakers program which allows women that are searching the job market in an effort to achieve independence, to acquire (borrow) clothing for job interviews. Maybe it will be your donation that gets the job, or makes the call to save a life.

If you are interested in donating, just shoot me an email to let me know you’ll be dropping something off and bring your donation by and simply leave it in the donation box on my front porch. You don’t even have to knock and say hello. You don’t even have to get the kids out of the car. Just drop and go.

Don’t feel like driving all the way to my place? No problem, just bring your items to either the business meeting or the potluck lunch and I’ll take it from there. Could sharing get any easier?