Soap recycling for hotels and hygiene education for communities in need
Soap recycling for hotels and hygiene education for communities in need
I remember as a child, my whole family used the same bar of soap. Gradually though the bar of soap seemed to disappear and was replaced by liquid hand and body wash. Using bar soap had come to be considered unhygienic and a source of bacteria. The strange thing is even though we shared soap, we seldom got sick and …
“Hygiene related illnesses claim the lives of almost 6,000 kids under the age of five every day; that’s more than malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis combined. Interestingly, the way to prevent those deaths is not a vaccine, it’s not even clean water, but just a bar of soap.” This is the way the global hygiene revolution begins — not with a …
Written by Alora Stickley, Summer Intern 2018. Hong Kong is currently in its summer flu season and leading hotels in some major Asian cities are doing their part to combat illness by supporting the efforts of Clean the World Asia. Their generous donations of used soap are helping to fight the flu virus at its root…our own hands! So, if …
Repost from Billionaire Magazine: Diarrheal diseases kill approximately 1.8 million people per year, predominantly children under 5 years old in Africa and South Asia. The tragedy is that these deaths are easily preventable – through simple hand-washing with soap. In the late 2000s Shawn Seipler was working for an e-commerce technology company and traveling several days a week. He was shocked …
Repost from Clean the World: In May, Clean the World Foundation was delighted to participate in two important events in the global health community. First, we attended the WASH Futures conference in Brisbane, Australia, with some of the most innovative organizations and leaders in the WASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) sector. It was a fantastic opportunity to learn more about …