A 30 Great Years-30 Great Deeds Update: Team Billie Good and her Atlanta and South-East Florida Dynasplint sales consultants gathered recently to volunteer for the Global Soap Project.
The Global Soap Project recovers and recycles soap from American hotels and facilitates a process by which it is sanitized, melted and remolded into new bars, and then distributed to refugee camps in Africa. In 2010, GSP collected over 50 tons of soap that would have ended up in the landfills, produced 30,000 new bars of soap, and distributed bars to Kenya, Uganda, St. Lucia, Swaziland, Haiti, South Sudan and Ghana. The soap is distributed to organizations that have existing operations in these communities to ensure the soap gets to those in need, with the goal of improving health through personal hygiene.
Not only is hygiene being improved in Africa, but landfills are not filling with 50 tons of soap! By participating in GSP, hoteliers, such as Hilton Worldwide, are diverting tons of waste from the landfill and bolstering environmental sustainability programs. Hotel managers, housekeepers and guests become more environmentally conscious and more sensitive to the needs of vulnerable populations. Click on the video below to see the great work of GSP and its founder Derreck Kayongo, former refugee and one of this year’s CNN Hero finalists. So great!
(PS- The Lululemon Giveaway is still live until the winner is picked on Thursday. Click here to enter by leaving a comment mentioning plantar fasciitis)
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