Virgin's "Phones for Change" provides homeless youth with lifeline

VANCOUVER/WINNIPEG - Increasingly mobile phones are becoming a lifeline to employment and services. To help at-risk and homeless youth Virgin Mobile Canada and Virgin Unite, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group, have launched a new initiative called Phones for Change. The program has partnered with Vancouver's Broadway Youth Resource Centre (BYRC) and Winnipeg's Resource Assistance for Youth (RaY), to give at-risk and homeless youth access to Virgin mobile phones and plans. At the same time is educates them on the importance of financial management and how to escape the cycle of debt. "I've always said that we should be...