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Secure@Phone was
conceived by a community of concerned parents and therefore
one of our highest priorities is protecting our schools and
our children from this growing crime. After all, in Hong Kong,
for example, a quarter of all phone owners are under thirteen
years of age with some as young as six.
Kids with phones make easy targets and sadly
kids themselves are turning to mobile theft. It is becoming
more and more prevalent in our schools.
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here to learn more
We mark our children’s shoes, coats
and bags, so why not their mobile phones? This would cut down
on the increasing trend of devices being stolen to feed a
drug habit or gang related crime.
Most schools don’t allow devices to
be brought onto the premises for this reason but in reality
it is extremely hard to enforce especially as parents often
want their children to carry phones, to keep track of them
and for peace of mind.
As phones become more popular and the functionality
increases so to does the cost. Let’s face it our kids
these days want the latest and greatest with a camera, MP3
player and all the other gadgets. The average phone now costs
about US$200.00 (that’s without all the gadgets!). In
a secondary school of approximately 1000 students roughly
40% own a device, that’s a staggering $200,000 worth
of devices available to a thief at any one time. So
why not mark it, register it and protect it now.
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That is why we have started the Secure@Phone
Youth Programme.
This pilot programme will start in Hong Kong
where we are arranging a series of Phone
Marking Days.
FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY, FROM
THE START OF THE COMING SCHOOL YEAR, 1st SEPTEMBER 2006 UNTIL
31st OCTOBER WE ARE MARKING AND REGISTERING KIDS PHONES FOR
FREE!!!
These Marking Days are sponsored
by the following Hong Kong companies:
- Zen Designs
- Squares
- City E Corporate Services
- FurnAsia International Ltd
This not only protects your child’s
property (and your wallet) but also deters would be thieves
in schools.
For a list of School Phone
Marking Days Click
Here.
If your company is interested in sponsoring
a school to mark kids phones please
submit your enquiry here.
Subsequently Secure@Phone
will be putting a simple ‘share the profits’
scheme into place whereby each participating school can earn
$10 for every $20 kit sold, generating additional funds for
schools AND reducing thefts within schools.
If every child who brought a
phone to school registered and marked that phone we would
see a marked decrease in the number of thefts, simple really.
Click
here to read more about the Youth Programme and see how your
school can get involved.
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