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Phones For All

Connecting Communities

Access to a phone or computer is essential for navigating modern life, finding work, connecting with friends, family, and critical support services such as healthcare. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of digital life has grown even more. People with unstable or no access to housing are especially reliant on phone and internet access to stay safe and connected, yet are often not able to afford the sky high costs of phones, laptops and phone plans. With the City of Toronto's upcoming encampment evictions which will displace countless people, removing them from their communities and support networks - our unhoused neighbours need phones now more than ever.

ALAB Resource Clinic has been and will continue to connect our unhoused and housing insecure neighbours with phones, charging banks, and phone plans. We need to stand by our neighbours and connect our communities. If you want to do your part in connecting your community and are in a position to do so, please donate a phone, laptop, charging bank, or contribute financially toward the cost of phone plans.

Please note: we are not able to provide phones to other community organizations at this time due to lack of supply.

How do I donate a phone or another device?

1. Please wipe your phone or device before donating!

Visit the documents below for assistance:

How to wipe your Android   How to wipe your iPhone

If you require further assistance wiping your phone or device, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page.


2. Select a drop-off location or method below:

307 Agusta Avenue

Open 7 days a week: 8:00am - 8:00pm

Drop off behind the counter during open hours

435 Margueretta Street

PHONES/SMALL ITEMS ONLY
Please place the device in the drop box on the front porch

1219 Dufferin Street

Monday: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Tuesday: 10:00am–5:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am – 4:00pm

Use the side door entrance on Hallam St. (2 brown doors with a doorbell on the top left-hand corner)
Inform staff or a volunteer answering the door that the item/s are for ALAB
If there are any concerns, please ask for Amy or Harry
Please use the form below to request the mailing address
Please use the form below to request a pick-up (ideally only if necessary or for multiple items)

Don't have a phone to spare, but still want to help?

You can support the ongoing cost of setting up phones and providing top-up minutes! Please see our Donate page or send an e-transfer to [email protected].

Need help with donating a phone?

We recognize that we are still in the midst of a pandemic and transport is not possible for everyone. If you would like to donate a phone or another electronic but would prefer the device be picked up or mailed in, please fill out the form below:



ALAB Resource Clinic


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(647) 738-2522
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Land Acknowledgement

The ALAB Resource Clinic was created by settlers in Tkaronto. We have learned that Tkaronto is a word that comes from the Mohawk people, meaning "the place in the water where the trees stand." We believe it is crucial for us, as settlers, to acknowledge the land's traditional names and its caretakers about which our schools did not teach us. To acknowledge that Indigenous people are often spoken of in the past tense and historicizing their struggles erases their identities and the violence being actively committed against them by Canada today. To acknowledge that we are working within an oppressive system that has and continues to dispossess Indigenous people of their lands and self-determination rights. We acknowledge that Indigenous peoples are leaders to be listened to and learned from regarding effective solutions to climate change. ALAB further acknowledges that we are on the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples, which is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. ALAB also acknowledges that Tkaronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit, and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa bands.

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