Have you ever wondered what happens to all the little bars of soap and bottles of shampoo which don’t get used after a hotel stay?
Did you know that impoverished people around the world die every day from acute respiratory infection and diarrheal disease because they have no soap? 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.
This is where www.CleanTheWorld.org comes in. This non-profit organization distributes recycled soap products, along with appropriate educational materials, to impoverished countries and to domestic homeless shelters worldwide.
Hotels all over the world are donating millions of pounds of discarded soaps and shampoo to this organization and in the process saving landfill space and fragile groundwater sources. Who knew that a simple bar of soap could do so much?
If you’d like to read about their mission and their success, please visit http://www.cleantheworld.org and see how one company is making a difference. Information on how you can help save the world – just one bar of soap at a time – is also available.
© 2010 Robin Cain, author of WHEN DREAMS BLEED
Wow, Robin! Just found your blog, and I’m definitely a fan
It’s so refreshing to find someone who blogs about something more than “just” writing or publishing or self-promotion. World problems, no less. I’ll definitely be adding this to not only my blogroll but also my to-do list 
Thanks for the visit to my blog, Robin, and I’m so glad you liked it. I only started blogging in June of this year, and I have to say the blogger community is an absolute revelation. I’ve met so many wonderful people through this that I’d never have otherwise, and I’ve found the cyber-experience to be much richer than I ever thought it could be. Thanks for being a part of that!