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Lesson 5 Recycling Hotel Soap to Save Lives
1 Derreck Kayongo, a native Ugandan arrived in the U.S. for the first time in the early 1990s and stayed
at a hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [What caught his eye:
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was three different kinds of soap in the
bathroom. A little confused about what to do with them] he used one and put the rest into his bag.
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The next day, when he came back to his hotel room, he was so astonished to find a completely new set of soap.
On the third night, he got upset when he realized that his bathroom was replenished with new soap bars.
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every day even though they were only slightly used.] He rushed to the concierge with all the soap bars he
had kept for himself.) He tried to return the bars to them, asking "Please do not charge me extra for these!
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2 He was surprised to know all the soap was free to take and that even barely used bars usually ended up
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in landfills.] Discarding millions of soap bars on a daily basis is something any Ugandan could hardly think
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of.) It was then that he hit upon an idea: What if we recycled the discarded bars of soap into new bars for
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those who couldn't afford them?"
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3 Derreck, a Ugandan war refugee, is familiar with such grievances that arise from poverty. For him,
collecting soap is “a first line of defense" mission in combating child-mortality around the world.)
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Sicknesses related to the lack of access to basic sanitation and poor human hygiene) tend to plague
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impoverished regions, and in fact, more than two million children die from diarrheal diseases each year.
These deaths occur almost exclusively among toddlers living in low-income countries.)
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4 In 2009, Derreck was able to bring his soap recycling idea to life. He founded the Global Soap Project to
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improve global health by promoting sanitation and hygiene Volunteers across the U.S/collect used soap
from hotels, clean it and reprocess it into new bars on weekends. A batch of soap bars is released for
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shipment only when one of its samples has been tested for pathogens and verified safe by a third-party
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laboratory. This is how he distributes the new soap for free to vulnerable populations around the world
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save lives. To date, the project has worked with more than 1,200 hotels and provided more than 900,000
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bars for forty-five countries worldwide. When Derreck facilitates better sanitation in needy regions and
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teaches people the importance of basic hand washing, he often witnesses tears of deep appreciation well up
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in their eyes. Distributing beautiful, fragrant soap bars helps refugees or orphans gain dignity and respect
(as human beings.) (By promoting sanitation and hygiene, we are protecting human rights. This is what
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my project is all about, he says.
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5 The bar of soap you used once or twice during your last hotel stay might now be helping poor children
fight disease. And it all started with one man who has shown that every single day you have the
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opportunity to make life a little bit better than it was before>])
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Q1 What does the Global Soap Project do?
It makes new bars of soap from used bars and distributes them.
for free to those who cannot afford them::
Q2 Why does collecting soap mean "a first line of defense" to Derreck?
Q3 What does Derreck want to do through the Global Soap Project?