Local volunteers build 75,000 hygiene kits for Clean the World

More than 4,000 volunteers in Singapore, Macau, Bethlehem and Las Vegas worked around the clock and across the globe on Saturday to successfully complete an unprecedented 24-hour global volunteer effort.
The volunteers built 200,000 hygiene kits to be distributed to populations in need worldwide, including in Macau. According to Sands China, more than 1,500 Sands China team members and volunteers from the Macau community worked together at The Venetian’s Cotai Expo from 2–9 p.m. to assemble 75,000 kits, supporting the global effort. A total of 14 associations joined Sands China team members to build the kits.
“It’s important to the company, it’s important to team members, it’s important to the community as a whole. It’s a very special event for which we want to use our resources, in terms of team members and supplies that we recycle from hotel properties, to contribute to parts of society that are in need,” said Winnie Wong, Sands China’s VP of Corporate Communications and Community Affairs, cited by TDM.
Each hygiene kit contains soap and other items collected from Clean the World’s hospitality partners, including global LVS properties such as Sands China’s integrated resorts in Macau. To form these individual personal care kits, soap is recycled through Clean the World’s sanitation and processing equipment, and is then packed with other amenities such as shampoo, conditioner, a toothbrush and toothpaste.
“The more recycling partnerships we can develop, the more waste we can turn into the life-saving tools. We have greatly reduced the number of children who were dying on a daily basis because they didn’t have access to soap and hygiene supplies,” Clean the World’s director Sam Stephens told TDM. “A global build of this magnitude has a far-reaching impact, providing reclaimed hygiene supplies to people and places we normally can’t reach,” stated Shawn Seipler, founder and CEO of Clean the World.