Veterans collecting calling cards for soldiers

PORTSMOUTH — During September, Aquidneck Medical Associates in Portsmouth and Newport are participating in a statewide campaign to collect and distribute international calling cards to overseas military personnel so they can call their families without worrying about the expense.

On average, it costs more than $4 a minute to place a call from Iraq to Boston. The cards are given to soldiers and not to their families because soldiers are not stationed in any one place long enough to have a phone number they can share. Veterans and US Family Health Plan staff members will collect the international calling cards and deliver them to US Family Health Plan at Brighton Marine Health Center, the originator of the campaign.

Aquidneck Medical Associates, 69 Turnpike Ave., 683-2290, is serving as a drop-off site. They are open from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday.

Calling cards also can be mailed to: The Calling Card Campaign, US Family Health Plan at Brighton Marine Health Center, 77 Warren St., Boston, MA 02135.
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