This weekend I had the pleasure of hearing Derreck Kayongo talk about his Global Soap Project. According to The Global Soap Project’s website their goal is to “recover discarded soap from 
hotels, reprocess it into new bars & distributes it to vulnerable populations throughout the world.”
Hotels throw away millions of unused and partially used bars of soap each year. Kayongo, a refugee himself, understands how wasteful this is and how much this discarded soap can help others in societies without access to adequate sanitation.
As outdoors people I know we can all understand the value of keeping wasted soap out of landfills, and as humans we understand how important it is to help others. Millions of children die each year because of pathogens that can be eliminated with hand washing. Something as common to us as soap can save many lives.
Please go to heroes.cnn.com and vote for Derreck Kayongo so his project will be awarded a prize that will help support The Global Soap Project and provide more recognition. You can vote up to ten times a day so I urge you to vote as often as you can and to share this with others so we can help thousands, and maybe millions of people live better and healthier.
Watch CNN Video to Learn More
Thank You
Scott
soap photo by: Makon Makoisia Herkkuja
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