Eco-Soap Bank in Cambodia

Help Cambodian Schools Reopen Safely Campaign

Where does your donation go?
Your contributions will help employ economically-disadvantaged women to recycle and distribute soap in schools in Cambodia. We have partnered with Eco-Soap Bank to target communities in Cambodia where support is needed from donors like you.

About
Tourism is an important component of many developing economies. Cambodia, for instance, attracts nearly five million tourists each year to admire the beauty of the legendary Angkor Wat temples, and hundreds of hotels have opened to accommodate them.

Normally, all used soap bars from hotel rooms are discarded and sent to landfills, along with other toiletry waste like bottles of lotion, conditioner, and shampoo. This is a significant volume of non-biodegradable material. Eco-Soap Bank seeks to mitigate this waste in service of the severe global hygiene problem. After they collect used soap bars, unused toiletries, and water bottles from hotels, they sanitize and reprocess the soap into new bars and distribute them to rural communities.

In addition to the widespread lack of soap, many rural populations have never used toiletries like shampoo or lotion. Eco-Soap Bank takes pride in providing items that can have such a positive and uplifting impact on community well-being.