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Global Soap Project Collects Soap for Africa

            Millions of hotels across the United States nonchalantly discard their visitors' once-used bars of soap every day. In fact, hundreds of millions of soap bars are discarded each year in North American alone. As relatively wealthy Americans, no has thought anything of it - until Derreck Kayongo launched the Global Soap Project (Ruffins). .
             The project began in the early 1990s after Kayongo's first hotel stay in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Ugandan native panicked when he noticed his bathroom soap was being replenished every day despite the fact that he only got one or two uses out of the bars (Ruffins). .
             "I tried to return the new soap to the concierge since I thought they were charging me for it," he said. "When I was told it was just hotel policy to provide new soap every day, I couldn't believe it" (Ruffins). .
             Kayongo immediately reported his discovery to his father, a former soap maker in Uganda. However, his father wasn't as shocked as he was (Ruffins).
             "My dad said people in America can afford to throw it away. But I just started to think, .
            


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