Goals: To provide mentoring support for young people via mobile phones.
Funding: 7,165 development funding in July 2004 and 5,950 to fund 25 sessions in September 2005 from The Vodafone UK Foundation, plus smaller amounts to pay for phones and top-up vouchers.
"Young people love their mobiles so we wanted to use them as a way of providing support," says Ian Wainer, student mentor co-ordinator at Sir George Monoux College in Walthamstow, east London.
As a result, the college has developed a "tele-mentoring" scheme, which consists of training up young people to peer mentor younger students via their mobiles.
The initiative, funded by The Vodafone UK Foundation, works via a "call centre" system based in a classroom at the college.
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