Verizon Wireless Donates $4,500 To Harmony House In Springfield, Missouri For Domestic Violence Prevention

SPRINGFIELD, MO — Verizon Wireless, through the Verizon Wireless HopeLine® Program, has donated $4,500 to Harmony House, a domestic violence agency based in Springfield, Missouri. The donation will be used to support a year-long domestic violence awareness program that will officially begin during the month of October. The first event, the annual Night of Unity, is scheduled to take place on October 1 at the Gillioz Theatre, 325 Park Central East in Springfield, reception to begin at 6:00 p.m. The program will begin at 6:30. The program will be followed immediately by a candlelight procession through downtown Springfield commemorating victims of domestic violence.

“Verizon Wireless is proud to support Harmony House and its efforts to prevent domestic violence in southwest Missouri,” said Brendan Fallis, president-Kansas/Missouri Region, Verizon Wireless. “The Night of Unity will help everyone focus on this important issue and help break the cycle of domestic violence.”

“Once again, we are proud to partner with Verizon Wireless as we mark the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month,” said Rodney Dwyer, Executive Director of Harmony House. “We encourage everyone, men and women alike, to learn what every individual can do to stop domestic violence in our communities. Our partnership with Verizon Wireless will allow us to continue to provide innovative awareness programs and outreach programs to those people who need our help.”

In addition to this grant, Verizon Wireless supports domestic violence agencies around the country through the HopeLine® phone recycling and reuse program.

Since the launch of the HopeLine® phone recycling program in 2001, Verizon has collected more than 8 million phones; awarded more than $10 million in cash grants to domestic violence agencies and organizations throughout the country; properly disposed of nearly 1.7 million no-longer-used wireless phones in an environmentally sound way; distributed more than 106,000 phones with approximately 319 million minutes of free wireless service to be used by victims of domestic violence; and kept more than 210 tons of electronic waste and batteries out of landfills. In 2011, Verizon made more than $225,000 in HopeLine® and Foundation grants to domestic violence prevention agencies in Missouri and Kansas. This year, Harmony House will make 60 wireless phones available for use by victims of domestic violence in the Springfield area.

For more information about HopeLine® from Verizon visit www.verizonwireless.com/HopeLine. If you or someone you know is a domestic violence victim call Harmony House at 864-SAFE or the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 to talk to a counselor. All calls to the National Domestic Violence Hotline are confidential.

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