Mobile Phone Credit

Mobile phone credit provides vital support for physical and mental health by allowing regular contact with family, as well as allowing access to medical, legal, media and advocacy support in Australia, access to crisis and trauma counselling, access to education and language materials, entertainment, and contact with supportive friends who offer much needed emotional support and connection when it is most needed.

Gifts for Manus and Nauru currently sends gifts of $50 phone credit at a time to approx. 200 of the people held in Australia’s Offshore Processing sites in PNG and Nauru.
We aim to send each person a $50 top up each month, however how often we can send credit depends on donations, with sometimes long wait times  between top ups. These long waits are very distressing for the people in PNG and Nauru, as regular contact with family and supports is vital.

We desperately need your help to send more top ups and reduce the time people have to wait between speaking to their family and other supports.

Phone credit costs $50 per person for a month…meaning we need to do approx. $10,000 worth of top ups each month if each person is to receive one. Any contribution you can make will be very welcome and make a big difference to the people held at Manus and Nauru and their loved ones.

Donations for phone credit can also be made via our crowdfunds.

You can donate on a casual basis here: https://chuffed.org/project/gfman-casual-2021

Are you able to donate on a more regular basis?
We are looking for 120 people to commit to a monthly pledge of $50. Are you able to do this? If so please donate here:
https://chuffed.org/project/gfman-monthly-pledge-2021

If you prefer to donate for phone credit by direct deposit into our bank account the details are below:

‘PHONE’ BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS:
Gifts for Manus and Nauru Incorporated
BSB: 032682 (Westpac)
ACC: 201606

Please see our ‘how to donate’ page for information about record keeping for tax purposes if you donate via bank deposit.

My Giving Circle is another donation platform which can be used for one off or monthly donations to phone credit.
Each $ you donate via My Giving Circle will count towards a vote for Gifts for Manus and Nauru to win a cash prize which we can then use to pay for more top ups.
Votes can also be registered each week without donating, so please check out our page on My Giving Circle and vote for us.
To vote or donate please got to our page here:  ‘My Giving Circle’