GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Central School District Teaching Assistants are sponsoring Cell Phones for Soldiers, which collects used cell phones at a recycling center and uses the money to purchase phone cards for soldiers.

This organization was founded in April 2004 by Robbie and Brittany Berquist, then 12 and 13 years old, with $21. Cell Phones for Soldiers has provided 181 million minutes of prepaid calling cards.

Each of Guilderland’s seven public school has a drop-off spot for used phones.

For more information, email Ann Marie O'Connor at Farnsworth Middle School at Oconnora@guilderlandschools.net or go online to cellphonesforsoldiers.com.