Global Project Starts with Hotel Soap
A Norcross non-profit repurposes used hotel soap then distributes it to refugee camps around the world.
Derreck Kayongo and his family escaped the tyranny of Adi Amin in Uganda by using connections and their survival skills. In the late '90s, Kayongo went to America on a scholarship to Eastern University in Philadelphia, but he hadn't forgotten his experience. He spent his first nights in a hotel and noticed that the soap was replaced each day by the hotel staff. He was surprised to learn this was the typical routine: The discarded but perfectly good soap was being tossed. The lightning bolt idea he had next would help prevent disease for hundreds of thousands of displaced people around the world. The Norcross-based Global Soap Project recovers soap from American hotels then sanitizes, melts and remolds it into new bars to distribute to …
