A non-profit organization has launched a campaign aimed at getting phones to Nova Scotians who may be experiencing homelessness or gender-based violence.
The campaign, called “Phones For the Holidays”, is coordinated by GEO Nova Scotia which stands for Getting Everyone Online. GEO works with 125 partner organizations to deliver Chromebooks, smartphones and iPads as well as providing home Internet and mobile phones to those who can’t afford them.
GEO Nova Scotia Chief Development Officer and Founder Matt Spurway says they are hoping to collect and distribute 1,000 phones across the province.
Spurway says they are also seeking financial donations that would be used to purchase prepaid phone cards that would go out with the phones.
There are more than 80 drop off locations across the province, including all 55 MLA offices and locally at the Pictou County Women’s Resource and Sexual Assault Centre and Strait Area Women’s Place-Leeside Society in Port Hawkesbury.