Donate To Charity Without Knowing It
January 23rd, 2008
The Belgian League For The Blind are encouraging people to put their donation line number as the first entry on your mobile address book so every time you accidentally ring ‘A Blind Number’, the charity gets a cut of the cost of the call. Handily they also cut the call off after 30 seconds so the most it’ll cost you is Eur 0.75.
Maybe something like AAAARDVARK and a single number could become the default number that the worlds mobile users put in their handsets for such events. Then we could persuade the mobile networks to donate the full cost of accidental calls to this number to a central charity pot.Think it is worth pursuing?
January 23rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I think that’s a pretty good idea actually! They could give out a little Accidental Hero trophy for the person who donates the most, without even knowing it.
January 23rd, 2008 at 3:26 pm
great idea pisspoorenglish. i wonder how much money goes to the networks for accidental calls. to a charity it could be a significant sum whereas to the networks its probably a drop in the ocean. I reckon my arse has cost me loads in muffled calls to friends with names beginning with ‘A’
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
this is a really good idea, being called Adam I normally get about three ‘Blind Calls’ a week, sometimes up to ten times of the same person when they decide to sit on their phone on the train. Even though listening to the inside of people’s pockets sometimes seems like my past time, this would help me immensely!
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Yeah, worth a try.