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The Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation has announced that
over 250,000 old mobile phones have been collected on its
behalf by school children all over the country since September
2009.
As part of Jack & Jill’s 'Phones for Boards' campaign,
these old mobiles are being exchanged for 400 interactive
whiteboards for the classroom valued at €1.2 million so far.
The campaign is hugely important in raising the €3 million
Jack
& Jill requires annually to support its 322 families
nationwide with home nursing care for their children with
brain damage.
As the Foundation only receives 19% from the State, it has
to be very creative and practical about the way it raises
funds and the unwanted mobile phone is an environmentally
friendly currency for Jack & Jill, with 250 phones buying
home nursing care for a sick child for one month.
As the new school term begins, the Jack & Jill Foundation
is recruiting
a new schools co-ordinator to build and develop this campaign
and to add more names and success stories to the 1,400 schools
already involved.
For the past 12 months, the campaign has been driven by Catherine
Terry from Midleton Co. Cork, who took a one-year career break
from her teaching job at Carrigaline Girls’ National School
to take up the challenge with Jack & Jill.
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