DON'T BIN YOUR MOBILES TO END UP USELESS IN A BRITISH LANDFILL! - SEND THEM TO OUR "MOBILES FOR THE GREEN GAMBIA" CAMPAIGN. THEY CAN BE INVALUABLE FOR THE MANY SMALL-SCALE SUSTAINABLE BUSINESSES EXISTING THERE BECAUSE LANDLINE PHONES HARDLY EXIST. THE AVERAGE GAMBIAN WAGE IS £5 PER WEEK, BUT MOBILE PHONES ARE THE SAME COST AS WE PAY. MOST FIND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO BUY THEM.

Environment Times have teamed up with Fonebak plc, the world leaders in mobile re-use and recycling solutions (www.fonebak.com) who have kindly pledged to kick-start our campaign by providing 100 re-conditioned phones to bring mobiles to sustainable businesses such as small-scale agriculture, wildlife reserve projects, eco-tourism, recyclers, solar power, and sustainable fisheries. 400 would make a great difference with the networks we have established there.

PLEASE RECYCLE YOUR MOBILES TO THIS SPECIAL FREEPOST ADDRESS, SET-UP IN CONJUNCTION WITH FONEBAK, Thank you.

Send to: FREEPOST GREEN GAMBIA

Many of the mobiles that we'll get diverted from British landfills will be given to women working in the agricultural sector, or selling their produce to hotels and urban areas. There's many thousand members in co-operatives who help each other, but they're in far-flung rural areas. Mobiles would be a great boost for increasing their wealth to spend on family welfare. Team leaders would be entrepreneurial in reaching new markets and lessening the urban drift of 'bumsters' during the tourist season.

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