Day 168: $5 to Global Soap Project

I ran across a story on CNN.com today about the Global Soap Project an organization that takes discarded soaps from hotels (that were otherwise just being thrown away) and reprocesses them into new soaps for people throughout the world who cannot afford such general hygiene products. So much disease and death in developing nations stems from unsanitary conditions, but as the CNN article pointed out, if you make only one dollar a day you are probably not going to spend 25 cents of that on a bar of soap.  Rather, you will buy food, of course. It's amazing how people live in such different conditions in our world and with such different philosophies. Here, we are so used to just throwing away items that others would love to have.