Cellphone Drive..

It's not common for people these days to help out one another without having ulterior motives especially if the person is a stranger. Apart of an English assignment, was to do an act of kindness in which you ask the person you help to pay it forward to someone else. My teacher preferred if one would do it for someone they will see again so we could find out how they payed it forward. For my assignment, I chose to create a cellphone drive at a dialysis center called Nephrology Foundation of Brooklyn. The staff and patients were asked to bring in old cellphones to be sent in to be recycled then sent to Iraq for the soldiers. The cellphones would allow the soldiers to call home. The drive was advertised all last week and the cellphones were collected on Monday June 15th, 2009. Each person who participated in the drive was asked to continue the acts of kindness and help someone out. The cellphones collected were given into my mother who sent in the cellphones to the founders of the idea of sending recycled cellphones to soldiers in Iraq. This project was particularly one of my favorite projects overall. Reason being is I like to help people and this gave me this opportunity. This project gave every student in my teacher's class to help someone and continue a rotation of kindness in the world. It sort of makes you feel like you are contributing to making the world a better place. There is no feeling like it.