Who Would Have Known Texting Can Be Good

At least for Haiti and the Red Cross this proved true as more than “three million people have texted “Haiti” to 90999 to make a $10 donation to the American Red Cross. At some periods during the month, more than 100,000 transactions were made in less than an hour, said James Eberhard, chairman of mGive.com, a subsidiary of Mobile Accord Inc. that donated its services and the mGive platform used to collect the donations.” The text “Haiti” campaign raised $32 million in a month. Maybe technology isn’t so bad and our ways of getting involved in causes is as simple as picking up the phone. I believe that the response by people to make donations is just another sign of the innate good in people.

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