Volunteer Builds GSP Annapolis Hotel Program

by Beth Penland on July 10, 2010

Photo by Mitchelle Stephenson - The Capital

Elliott Phillips received some well-earned attention this week in The Annapolis Capital, for his work with the Global Soap Project. The retired Army signal corpsman read about our work in Stars & Stripes, then contacted our organization to see how he could help. Today he is managing collection and shipping of soap for several hotels and helping to spread the word about the project.

Thank you Elliott! Everyone at GSP is grateful for your spirit, enthusiasm, hard work and generosity.

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Derreck Kayongo, a humanitarian relief expert, whose family fled Uganda during the tyranny of Idi Amin in 1979, explains why he founded the Global Soap Project and how it saves and improves lives one bar of soap at a time.

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, then distributed to refugee camps in Africa.

There is an almost infinite supply of available hospitality industry soap with 4.6-million hotel rooms in the United States; an estimated 2.6-million soap bars are discarded every day. Repurposing this waste can greatly improve the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, one bar of soap at a time.

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