(SitNews) Ketchikan, Alaska - Ketchikan residents are asked not to throw away their old flip phones but instead donate them to be refurbished.

Alaska State Troopers and RadioShack have paired up in Ketchikan and are collecing old cell phones for donation to domestic violence shelters as part of a project called HopeLine.

There is a HopeLine collection box at the RadioShack in Ketchikan and the Alaska State Troopers Post in Ketchikan also has another collection box where phones can be donated. The collected phones will be shipped to a facility to be refurbished, if possible, and then the phones will be provided to shelters where needed.

The program, which has been a long-standing coordinated effort between Verizon and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), will expand to more Alaska communities in 2014.

The deadline for donating cell phones in Ketchikan is Dec. 15.

Source of News:

Alaska State Troopers

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