Every day, thousands and thousands of hotels, and consumers alike, discard millions of pounds of bars and bottled soap and shampoo. These products often end up in already overflowing landfills and contaminate fragile groundwater systems, while impoverished people around the world die every day from acute respiratory infections and diarrheal diseases, simply because they have no means to wash their hands!
The death toll is staggering. Each year more than five million lives are lost to these diseases with the majority of deaths being among children less than five years old. Studies have shown that simple hand washing substantially reduces the spread of these diseases. Unfortunately, the essential items for proper hand washing are unobtainable for millions of people worldwide.
In an effort to prevent these needless deaths from occurring, Clean the World distributes recycled soap products, along with appropriate educational materials, to impoverished countries worldwide, and as well as domestic homeless shelters.
Join us in the month of December for our first annual:
"Clean the World -
Soap Drive"!
We will have a number of different drop off locations around the valley that you can swing by and drop off donations. We are not asking for $, but if you would like to donate directly, you can visit their website at www.CleanTheWorld.org.
For every pound of soap we receive in donations in December, we will match it!
Check back here soon for drop off locations, and more information!
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