Project RE-Cell Helps Meals on Wheels

By The Idaho Statesman, Boise

Jun. 15–Project RE-cell, a Boise-based company, is helping Meals on Wheels raise money to help provide daily meals to homebound seniors.

Project RE-cell, which helps nonprofit organizations raise money by collecting used cell phones, will donate between $1 and $319 per phone to Meals on Wheels, depending on the model, condition and age of the phone collected.

“Every meal costs about $5 to produce. Though program participants are asked to make a $3 donation for each meal, the average donation is only about a dollar,” said Angela Spain, senior nutrition program manager at the Central District Health Department. “The difference is made up through direct donations from supporters and by general fund monies of the Health District and partnerships like Project RE-cell.”

You can help by dropping your old cell phone off at the district health department office, at 707 N. Armstrong Place in Boise.

If your business wants to set up a drop box to collect used cell phones for Meals on Wheels, call Norma Russell with the health department at 327-8609.

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