Smartphone manufacturing is notorious for its negative impact for the environment. One phone can generate a ridiculous amount of 86 kg of waste. Let alone the massive carbon emissions. To find an easy way to ease your environmental consciense, fill out our form to send us your old phone. Your phone will be given a new life in the hands of a female African entrepreneur, who will be able to lease it at an affordable price. We challenge you to collect as many used phones as you can to lead the way towards a regenerative global economy!
” A smartphone can help me in so many things: to know different products on the market and their prices in other markets, to know how to check the quality of products. I can also download important apps to interact with friends”
Iradukunda Marie Bonne
Kimironko Market, Rwanda
Smartphones4good brings together donated phones, phone refurbishers, recyclers and used phone resellers to enable equal opportunity to the digital 21st century to everyone.
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Donating your used smartphone can mitigate the environmental burden of smartphone manufacturing while improving digital, financial, and gender equality in Africa. Giving access to information, your phone can become a weapon of self-liberation.
Influenced by a broad network of impact investors, academia, as well as our local partners in several African countries, we have established a regenerative value chain with an approach of building from the ground up. Partnering with existing community-based lending circles guarantees a higher level of transparency and efficiency.
We want to challenge the traditional perceptions often imposed on African women, and give them a voice to show the richness of their cultures and ways of life. Their respectful coexistence with nature is something we should all learn from. By doing business with them, we engage in an equal transaction that benefits all parties.
Follow our social media to participate in our ambitious vision of building a collaborative international community around circular economy!
Once we receive your phone, our team of experts will ensure your privacy remains yours. Resetting the phone to factory settings by yourself does not guarantee a total removal of your data, so we have our own software to take care of that.
Psst, our team won the European Comission’s EUvsVIRUS Hackathon in the Digital Finance category in 2020!
