Sands China, community volunteers pack 35,000 hygiene kits

Sands China staff and local community volunteers at The Venetian assembled 35,000 hygiene kits on Tuesday to be delivered to underprivileged families in the Philippines.

The initiative driven by its mother company, Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS), is a worldwide volunteer effort to build 100,000 hygiene kits this year for the social enterprise, Clean the World, to help improve health and well being of populations in need.

Sands China’s volunteer event is one of the series of hygiene kits assembly events at LVS’ properties in Macau, Singapore, Bethlehem and Las Vegas between July and December.

The effort is part of LVS’s ongoing partnership with Clean the World to support its mission of promoting good health and well-being around the globe through improved access to soap as well as hygiene education.

Each hygiene kit includes soap collected from Clean the World’s hospitality partners, including LVS properties around the world, which is then recycled through Clean the World’s soap sterilization process before going through the re-manufacture. Other amenities in the kit include shampoo, conditioner, a toothbrush and toothpaste.

This is the third consecutive year LVS has assembled hygiene kits for Clean the World, who partnered with Children’s International this year.

Winnie Wong, vice president of corporate communications and community affairs for Venetian Macau Limited, stressed that the resort is keen on producing the least amount of waste as possible.

She noted that with the recent opening of The Parisian, there has been a substantial amount of recycling of products.

Meanwhile Gyneth Tan-Murphy, director of marketing & communications of Clean the World, hoped that families in need would receive the kits within the 12 days of Christmas.

“These hygiene kits are very special. It connects the less fortunate to the very fortunate. […] It is the festive season so it is very timely for Sands China to support this event,” she told the Times.

A total of eight local community associations joined Sands China team members in Tuesday’s hygiene kit assembly at The Venetian.

The ongoing collection and recycling of soap products also benefits local charities in Macau and aged care homes.

The annual Las Vegas Sands Global Hygiene Kit Build is one component of the company’s support for Clean the World.

Since 2011, LVS and Clean the World have recycled more than 190 tonnes of waste from LVS properties into more than 1.6 million bars of soap. LV