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Jan. 1, 1970
A newly-launched nonprofit organization has set about implementing an idea: reduce childhood mortality rates in Uganada with recycled mini-soaps from hotels in the United States. The Atlanta-based Global Soap Project takes slightly-used hotel soaps, sterilizes them, melts them down and forms new bars of soap to send to Uganda.
A bar of soap in Uganda costs 500 shillings of that country’s currency – the equivalent of 10 United States cents. However, many Ugandan refugees live off of 1 United States dollar per day, according to an article which appeared in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian Newspaper.
A portion Ugandan children who die each year of diarrhoeal diseases could be saved by simple access to soap which they can afford.
Global Soap Project Founder Derreck Kayongo told the Mail & Guardian that it’s difficult for some people in Uganda to “spend money on something like soap which could actually help them prevent diseases” and that all the used hotel soap needs is “just cleaning and re-melting and remolding."
Another group, Orlando, Fla.-based Clean the World, recently announced a newly formed partnership with members of the United States hotel industry. That organization’s first airlift of more than 2,000 pounds of soap (21,000 bars) to Haiti will be distributed at churches and in orphanages.
According to that organization 3.5 million children die annually from respiratory and diarrheal diseases. It’s executive director, Shawn Seipler, said, “There are 4.6-million hotel rooms in the United States alone, and it is estimated that some 2.6-million bars of soap are discarded every day, enough to supply each of those 3.5-million children with a bar of soap every three days.”
Incidentally, guests who booked with at hotels-in.com have also had issues with hotel soaps in the past.
Can used hotel soaps save third-world lives?
A newly-launched nonprofit organization has set about implementing an idea: reduce childhood mortality rates in Uganada with recycled mini-soaps from hotels in the United States. The Atlanta-based Global Soap Project takes slightly-used hotel soaps, sterilizes them, melts them down and forms new bars of soap to send to Uganda.
A bar of soap in Uganda costs 500 shillings of that country’s currency – the equivalent of 10 United States cents. However, many Ugandan refugees live off of 1 United States dollar per day, according to an article which appeared in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian Newspaper.
A portion Ugandan children who die each year of diarrhoeal diseases could be saved by simple access to soap which they can afford.
Global Soap Project Founder Derreck Kayongo told the Mail & Guardian that it’s difficult for some people in Uganda to “spend money on something like soap which could actually help them prevent diseases” and that all the used hotel soap needs is “just cleaning and re-melting and remolding."
Another group, Orlando, Fla.-based Clean the World, recently announced a newly formed partnership with members of the United States hotel industry. That organization’s first airlift of more than 2,000 pounds of soap (21,000 bars) to Haiti will be distributed at churches and in orphanages.
According to that organization 3.5 million children die annually from respiratory and diarrheal diseases. It’s executive director, Shawn Seipler, said, “There are 4.6-million hotel rooms in the United States alone, and it is estimated that some 2.6-million bars of soap are discarded every day, enough to supply each of those 3.5-million children with a bar of soap every three days.”
Incidentally, guests who booked with at hotels-in.com have also had issues with hotel soaps in the past.
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