May 4, 2019

Phone Donations

I wanted to thank you for all of your electronics donations. Today I gave one of the phones to a refugee and he literally started crying and got down on his knees in appreciation. He also asked to say thank you in a video (attached). A phone or laptop is a lifeline to refugees. https://lifeinchaos.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/img_3079.mov

Also this young girl (age 17 from Afghanistan and without family here) was crying on the road. I picked her up, took her for tea to talk (I thought she may have been raped or attacked inside the refugee camp…very common occurrence here), but she had had her phone stolen (a phone here is a lifeline to any living relatives, a place to photograph and store important documents, a place to store memories). I also gave her one of the donated phones and she cried and wouldn’t let go of me. Thank you all!! Lexine