Andrew Price
Former Web Editor, GOOD.is
- December 17, 2008 • 6:30 pm PST
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Doctors Without Borders gets a lot of attention, but the lesser-known, similarly-named, non-profit Télécoms Sans Frontières is doing some valuable work for refugees of wars or natural disasters: letting them make phone calls. A contact at the U.N. Foundation just sent me this video from TSF's tent in a Ugandan camp and explained:
"In Ugandan refugee camps without telephones, or even electricity, TSF is providing free, three-minute phone calls to reconnect loved ones separated while fleeing the recent violence in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)."
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Apparently TSF's work is funded in large part by Vodafone, the global telecoms giant that owns a 45% stake in Verizon here in America. Here's more about their work in Uganda.
UPDATE: Just to be clear, it's The Vodafone Foundation, the corporation's charitable arm, that supports TSF (along with the U.N. Foundation).
"In Ugandan refugee camps without telephones, or even electricity, TSF is providing free, three-minute phone calls to reconnect loved ones separated while fleeing the recent violence in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)."
00:00/00:0000:00Apparently TSF's work is funded in large part by Vodafone, the global telecoms giant that owns a 45% stake in Verizon here in America. Here's more about their work in Uganda.
UPDATE: Just to be clear, it's The Vodafone Foundation, the corporation's charitable arm, that supports TSF (along with the U.N. Foundation).
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