Clean the World Saves Lives with Slivers of Hotel Soap
August 17, 2009 · Print This Article
What happens to those little bars of hotel soap when guests use them a few times and then leave them behind? Too often, they get thrown away, but one organization is putting them to good use, recycling them to improve sanitary conditions in third world countries.
Clean the World partners with hotels to take unused remnants of soap and shampoo, transform them into new bars of soap and deliver them to places where soap is unavailable. As a result, millions of lives can be saved from diseases like acute respiratory illness and diarrheal illness.
From Clean the World:
In an effort to prevent these needless deaths from occurring, Clean the World distributes recycled soap products, along with appropriate educational materials, to impoverished countries worldwide, and to domestic homeless shelters.
CTW has an established international network for the delivery of soap where it is needed most. Today, CTW leverages missionaries, mission groups, orphanages, and other stable, people-focused groups for distribution. It is important that all goods get into the hands of the people that need it most. In many impoverished countries, the governments are unstable and unable to guarantee distribution of our goods to their people.
Learn more about Clean the World’s recycling methods, statistics on how proper hand washing saves lives and what you can do to help at CleantheWorld.org.
Link [Clean the World]
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