When I was 12, my days revolved around figuring out how to get my mom to spend an outrageous amount of money on Gloria Vanderbilt jeans, where to hide my fishhead sneakers and whether or not my Teen Beat subscription would follow me to Germany.
Hey, I was 12.
Never in my wildest imagination could I have done what a pair of siblings, aged 12 and 13, accomplished in 2004. You may have heard of this program, may have even contributed.
In April 2004, Robbie (12) and Brittany (13) Bergquist of Massachusetts began a program to recycle unused and old cell phones, turning them into prepaid phone cards for soldiers serving overseas. To date, their efforts have netted over $1 million dollars in donations, enabling them to send over $400,000 worth of cards to the soldiers. And they started it all with $21 and an idea.
-- Jennifer
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