In the Press

On January 21, 2010, David Beasley at Global Atlanta reported on our first shipment of soap to Africa!

The Global Soap Project and one of our partners, the 3H Hotel Group in Chattanooga, TN, were featured on WRCB-TV over the holidays. Check out the story here!

The November 19, 2009 edition of the Charleston Business Journal covered Derreck Kayongo’s speech at Blackbaud’s Conference for Non-Profits, where he discussed fleeing Uganda with his family and his transition to living and thriving in America.

On November 4, 2009, WXIA 11 Alive News featured “The Audacity of Soap” by reporter Matt Pearl. Matt interviewed Derreck Kayongo and Patrick Birchall, general manager of the InterContinental Hotel in Buckhead (Atlanta, GA.)

AP Photo/John Bazemore On October 12, 2009, the Associated Press ran an article by Dionne Walker, titled “Former refugee recycles US hotel soap for Uganda,” and was picked up by more than 200 online media outlets including the MSNBC, CBS News, the Mail and Guardian Online.

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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.

We are currently in the middle of our pilot program and have collected over 14,000 pounds of soap from hotels throughout the southeastern United States. Please check back frequently, subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter to keep up with our progress!
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