# Bango offers users SMS donation facility for DEC's tsunami appeal

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/01/17/bango-offers-users-sms-donation-facility-dec039s-tsunami-appeal/
- Published: 2005-01-17T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Staff at mobile phone software and applications company Image Habitat in Birmingham
have spent their own time developing a SMS donation service to be used by clients
of Bango, the mobile content platform provider. The system can be used to donate
to the DEC tsunami appeal.
Using billing services provided free by Cambridge-based
Bango, donations of £1.50 can be made instantly, simply by sending the Text message‘
Go Give’ to short-code 87121. In return for their donations, people will be

directed automatically to a site where they can chose from a selection of specially
designed wallpapers.

Ray Anderson, CEO at Bango, said: “People can now make small donations from the 
convenience of their mobile, in the same

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way as putting money in a collection tin.”

The Bango system ensures that donations can be made on any mobile network by any
mobile handset in more than 40 different countries. Bango also provides a choice
of

different ways to pay from adding the amount to the mobile phone bill to debit or
credit cards. The donations will be forwarded directly to the central Disasters 
Emergency Committee.

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