Global Soap Project ships to Haiti

Volunteers for the Global Soap Project spent Monday loading a container to ship roughly 90,000 bars of soap to Salesian Missions in Haiti.

The shipment will be distributed by the Congregation des Salesiens to residents in Port-au-Prince and surrounding  communities. Salesian Missions, the U.S. development arm of the Salesians of Don Bosco, which has worked to help people in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

The  Global Soap Project is an Atlanta-based nonprofit that recycles  discarded soap from hotels using a process by which the soap is melted and remolded into new bars, then distributed to people in developing countries.