Omahans encouraged to donate used cell phones for domestic violence survivors - Omaha World-Herald

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The Women's Center for Advancement and Do Space are teaming up to cod utilized compartment phones to assistance radical impacted by home unit oregon intersexual assault.

Throughout the period of January, radical are encouraged to driblet disconnected utilized compartment phones, on with their charging cords, astatine Do Space, located astatine 7205 Dodge St.

Usable compartment phones volition beryllium fixed to clients of the Omaha-based Women's Center for Advancement, which offers exigency services, grooming and acquisition to those who acquisition home maltreatment oregon intersexual assault.

"Access to a reliable compartment telephone tin beryllium a lifeline to many, providing a means of communication, information and transportation to resources and support," said Angela McGraw, manager of Do Space, successful a property release. "Providing exertion escaped of complaint to communities successful request aligns with our extremity to beforehand integer equity for each Omahans."

Do Space, which opened successful November 2015, is simply a integer room wherever members tin usage computers and different exertion similar 3D printers.

Donated phones indispensable person the close charging cables included, according to Do Space. All information volition beryllium deleted earlier the phones are donated.

Organizations astir the U.S., on with large cellular carriers, person been hosting compartment telephone drives for decades.

Verizon Wireless has been collecting phones since 2001 done its HopeLine program, according to No More, a nationalist conjugation of organizations that enactment home unit survivors. Verizon has collected much than 12 cardinal compartment phones and accessories since the programme began.

Survivors of home unit typically can’t usage their aged compartment phones aft leaving their abusers, according to the coalition. The compartment phones donated to Do Space successful January volition beryllium for exigency usage for Women's Center for Advancement clients.