Thursday, August 23, 2007

Hours Add Up to Free Minutes - washingtonpost.com

Hours Add Up to Free Minutes - washingtonpost.com: "Hours Add Up to Free Minutes Teens Collect Cellphones, Send 100,000 Calling Cards to U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Thursday, August 23, 2007; Page C13 How much money is in your piggy bank? Would you give it away to someone who needed it? Brittany and Robbie Bergquist did. They turned $21 and an idea into a million-dollar charity. One night three years ago Brittany and Robbie were watching the news at home in Norwell, Massachusetts. The kids, then 13 and 12, heard a story about an American soldier in Iraq who was struggling to pay his $8,000 cellphone bill."

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