The Global Soup Project was founded in 2009, and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the Global Soap Project receives partially-used soap from over 1,000 hotels across North America, recycles it into new bars of soap, and distributes them to disaster victims, refugees, and children and mothers living in extreme poverty.  To-date, GSP has sent recycled soap, along with hygiene education, to thousands of people in 23 countries, and each week GSP produces 30,000 new bars of soap to go to people who need them most.

Sam Stephens, Executive Director of the Global Soap Project gives us an update on progress made to date!

As we head into a busy time of year, I want to share some of the exciting successes in 2012.

The Global Soap Project is growing.  Currently, we’re partnering with 1,000 hotels across North America to salvage their used soap.  With improved machinery and a handful of new, capable staff, we’re now producing 30,000 new bars of soap each week – a quantity that would have taken 10 weeks to produce last year! That’s 7,500 pounds of soap that would otherwise end up in landfills or water systems weekly.

Our impact for good has been growing, too.  So far in 2012, we’ve partnered with a host of respected relief and development organizations to send more than 300,000 new bars of soap to 11 countries.  This includes a partnership with the youth development group Salesian Missions to provide 5,000 children in orphanages in Haiti more than a year’s supply of new soap.  In addition, we’ve recently partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a project in Malawi to improve the health of pregnant women and their children by teaching them about proper hygiene and encouraging regular visits to their local clinics.

There are more exciting partnerships like these on the horizon, and we’ll need your help to make them a reality. Together, we’ll continue to make a difference – one bar of soap at a time!

For more information about the Global Soap Project visit www.globalsoap.org