How to Donate Using Your Cell Phone to Help Natural Disaster Victims in Haiti Or Chile

Depending on the type of cell phone plan or callingdonations;
plan that you have on your smart phone or cellThere are some other companies out there, and
phone, you can text a donation to the victims ofthis is why you should get text messaging with
Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Typhoons, Tsunamis,your cell phone calling plan, just in case you wish
Tornadoes, or Floods. In fact, millions of people didto make a donation and be part of something
just that after the Haiti Disaster and it is was alarger than yourself. Namely, the relief efforts to
huge success raising $30 million in donations in ahelp those who have no way to help themselves,
very short amount of time.so, please consider all this if it is your intention to
If you are on the Sprint Network have a prepaiddonate.
plan, you can even use your mobile-phoneAlways ask, about the program you are donating
account to text a donation which will appear willto, in order to make sure it is legitimate, not all of
be deducted from your prepaid phone account.these donation programs make sense, or give in
Other major networks and cell phone carriers likethe way they have been advertised. Check with
AT&T, Verizon, and others will add your donationthe BBB, and make sure the company is
to your cell phone bill. Some have limits to howlegitimate, that they are not on an FBI or FTC list
much you can donate by text messaging, butas being questionable. Lots of fraud occurs during
that is okay. You see, it is the numbers thesecrisis, because scamsters realize how vulnerable
non-profits are after. Even if everyone just gavethe public is, in such emotional times of
a few dollars, it adds up fast.catastrophic world events.
Perhaps, this is why Hollywood got involved, andOne rule of thumb is to watch for information on
the first lady asking people to donate througha major TV network covering the crisis, or find a
texting their gifts (text money) directly to wheregovernment agency which tells you how to use
it would be needed most? Virgin Mobile USAyour cell phone or smart phone to donate to the
supports text donations, but some carriers dorelief or rescue efforts. Indeed, please be careful
not. MGive is a company that supports textingand thanks for caring.