Find Your Voice

Charity

What do you do with your old mobile phone? “Find Your Voice”, the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre’s latest fundraising and public awareness campaign, provides the answer.

Inspired by KPMG’s global employee philanthropic programme called BRIGHT, Find Your Voice provides clients of the Cayman Islands Crisis Centre with new mobile phones and new telephone numbers.

Individuals and companies are asked to donate their old mobile phones and accessories, which are then shipped to a recycler in the United States, who will pay the Crisis Centre cash for the equipment. These funds will go towards the purchase of new phones and pre-paid minutes for the Crisis Centre clients.

Find Your Voice launches Saturday, 6 April from 10am to 3pm, where volunteers will be at Foster’s Food Fair Airport and Strand locations collecting old mobile phones and accessories. Collection boxes will remain at these locations and will also be at Kirk Market.

Cayman Islands Crisis Centre’s fundraising chairperson Allison Clark spoke about the concept behind the programme: “A phone is a basic requirement for someone who is reconstructing her life: clients will now have the means to find a place to live, set up job interviews and safely connect with family members. It might also be a lifeline in an emergency situation”.

LIME, who has been a longstanding contributor to the Crisis Centre, will be a major sponsor of the programme in its first year, providing phones and pre-paid minutes free of charge to the clients.

In October 2012, KPMG invited staff to form teams of two to develop a ideas that would make a difference in the Cayman Islands. Megan Holt and Julia Allman, both senior auditors at KPMG, won the competition with their presentation and business plan for Find Your Voice.