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Centers supported by foundation satellite links: Camp Taji Camp Fallujah Camp Taqaddum Al Asad Airbase Camp Victory |
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Why We Do it... Wartime is the wrong time to commercially exploit military families FCF Executive Director talks about Freedom Calls' non-profit alternative to AT&T on Fox News |
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| "We are making the technology available in the board rooms of those who profit from the war available to those who fight the war" -- John B. Harlow II, Executive Director | ||||
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You Can Make a Difference!
There is no internet
infrastructure in Iraq. It costs $ tens of thousands per
month to maintain satellite links to Freedom Calls Centers
at military bases on the front lines. The foundation's state
of the art communications
services are free of charge to military families and
represent an alternative to commercial
exploitation by military contractors. We provide more than
2,000 enterprise class family video conferences and more
than 1.5 million minutes of free telephone calls every month
saving military families $4 million a year from their
paychecks over AT&T's monopoly $0.19 minute telephone rates.
Freedom Calls is a 501(c)3 public charity and is entirely
supported by donations from the public & receives no funding
from the military.
We need your help! Please donate and
write a letter to your Congressman and Senator requesting
DOD support for Freedom Calls. In memory of Marine Sergeant Michael Yarbrough: "Marine Sgt. Michael Yarbrough, deployed out of Camp Pendleton, was killed in action on September 6, 2007 at a security checkpoint in Iraq. Sgt. Yarbrough died alongside three other brave Marines, whom he called good friends and of course, "brothers". Michael was on his third deployment to Iraq and was due home in just a couple months. Michael took extraordinary pride in being a Marine and the love he had for his fellow Marines and the Corps ran deep. He was a caring and giving person to all who knew him. That is why I have asked that donations in Michael’s memory be made to Freedom Calls. All it takes is one donation, of any amount, to affect so many. One donation could help a Marine or soldier to see their newborn for the first time, to see an ill family member, or share a little bit of a holiday with those back at home. I would have given anything to see my husband one last time, so I would love to help give the opportunity of seeing a loved one on deployment to other families. There are a number of reasons why I will donate and ask of you to donate, but the most important reason right now is in honor of Sgt. Michael Yarbrough, because he would want us to do what we could do to help other military families ." |
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In loving memory of Michael, Mary Yarbrough Make a donation in memory of SGT Yarbrough |
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  Freedom Calls Directors Discuss Funding Needs Watch the channel 12 news coverage... Watch the NBC news coverage... |
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North Carolina National Guard
Commends Freedom Calls See Certificate... |
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Freedom Calls Executive Director, John B. Harlow II accepts thanks from President George Bush at the White House on behalf of all of Freedom Calls' hard working employees, volunteers, Hometown Link partners and generous contributors |
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Freedom Calls fulfills last wish of soldier's
dying sister See front page article from Kansas City Star Watch the Fox News Coverage
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Marine
Corps Engineer Company C extends heartfelt thank you to
Freedom Calls Foundation and AT&T Telecom Pioneers More... |
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Freedom Calls Foundation celebrates 1st Year of Operations Watch the Movie |
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Department of Defense Employees select Freedom Calls
Foundation for Generous Donation - Defense Security Service
Employee Association Fund to benefit soldiers and their
families DSS Commendation and DSSEA Letter of Appreciation |
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Foundation Mission |
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Faced with extended tours of duty, our front line soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are not able to speak with members of their families for months at a time. This breakdown of family communication needlessly contributes to the stress experienced by our soldiers and their mothers, fathers, wives, husbands and children at home. Throughout history, tours of duty in
wartime have served to separate families. We are
deploying state-of-the art technology to transform the
experience of soldiers on extended deployments to war zones.
Soldiers may now attend and participate in milestone family
events such as graduations, births, birthdays and weddings
etc. via video conference over the Freedom Calls Network.
One Army General recently observed that our effort
represents the single greatest boost in morale for the
troops in the past 25 years A $50 contribution by just 1 million Americans will enable the Freedom Calls Foundation to offer its state of the art communication services to virtually every soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan free of charge.
Family is important,
especially during wartime. Your contribution shows your
appreciation for the sacrifices being made by our soldiers
in Iraq and their families at home in a direct and
meaningful way - by bringing them closer together. |
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The Foundation's Freedom Calls Centers offer
telephones, video conferencing stations, video email
stations, and computers with email and internet access.
As a result the more than 40,000 soldiers in 5 camps in Iraq are
able to communicate with their families and loved ones at
home on a regular basis
24 hours per day free of charge.
The Army has requested that the Foundation install it facilities at 8 additional Army camps in Iraq and 2 in Afghanistan in the coming months. Each Freedom Calls facility costs about $250,000 to set up and approximately $250,000 a year in maintain. Future deployments will encompass as many as 100 additional locations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations where our overseas troops lack regular communication with their families and loved ones at home. With your support, we hope to install our facilities at every Army camp in Iraq and Afghanistan in the coming year. Operation Hometown Link The foundation has launched Operation Hometown Link with the generous donation of several corporate and university contributors. Corporations, law firms, schools, hospitals and universities have offered to allow military families to access their video conferencing facilities across the country to speak and interact with their soldiers and marines. The foundation expects to have more than ten thousand sites across the country in the coming months in which families can gather to speak with and interact with their soldiers and marines using state of the art video conferencing equipment. More on Initiatives... |
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Working closely with corporate contributors, individuals,
and the military, the Foundation has built a satellite
network connecting 5 military installations in Iraq with the
United States. In 2004, the foundation installed its first
facility offering VOIP telephone, internet and video
conferencing services in an Army camp located north of
Baghdad in the Sunni Triangle.
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