JAR Award of Excellence

This month's JAR Award of Excellence goes to Derreck Kayongo, a refugee-turned-entrepreneur from Uganda. NPR's Marketplace aired an interview with him:

Saving the world, one soap at a time | Marketplace from American Public Media

Scenario:
Derreck Kayongo is at a hotel for the first time. He has noticed that room service replaces his bar of soap everyday, and so he asks the front desk:

"What do you do with the partially used bar?"

He tells the interviewer, "He said we throw those out. I went back to my room and lost it. I understand what it means not to have amenities like soap. Soap is the first line of defense against germs and diseases."

Derreck now reprocesses soaps from hotels across the country and sends them to families in Africa.

It's called The Global Soap Project. http://www.globalsoap.org/

And as we know from JustNeem, soaps can change the world.