Soap That Saves Lives

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June 22, 2011 a project of CharityFocus It's not good enough for us to complain about what other people aren't doing for us. It's important that we all band together, think of an idea and pursue it. - Derreck Kayongo - Soap That Saves Lives Perhaps he noticed because his father was a soapmaker in Uganda. When Derreck Kayongo learned how much soap was thrown away by hoteliers in the US, and that 2 million children die each year due to a lack of santitation, he decided to do something about it. He started Global Soap Project. Volunteers across the U.S. collect the hotel soaps and ship them to the group's warehouse in Atlanta. On Saturdays, Atlanta volunteers assemble there to clean, reprocess and package the bars. Then, they work with partner organizations to ship and distribute the soap directly to people who need it -- for free. Thanks to this CNN Hero, more than 100,000 bars have been gifted to communities in nine countries. { read more } Submitted by: Fran Korten Be The Change Tell a local hotel about the Global Soap Project. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A 15-Year-Old's Bucket List Goes Viral 25 Visionaries Changing Your World Leap of Faith Thinking Outside the Human Mind DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 106,530 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More