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EVERYONE DESERVES ACCESS TO SOAP

Each purchase helps teach refugees how to make soap

Choose from our natural handmade soaps

Proceeds from each purchase fund our research into developing new, accessible, soap making methods for use by refugees in the camps.

Many in the world take an essential tool of
empowerment and dignity for granted—Soap.


UWEZO = DIGNITY

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Mapenzi Kinege, Founder

My name is Mapenzi Kinege, I study Public and Global Health at the University of Washington in Seattle. I was born near Goma in the beautiful but war-torn country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, sometime in 2000 or 2001. 
 

As an infant, I ended up on the side of a road in a conflict zone near the Tanzanian border. Somehow by the grace of God and kind people, I was discovered and carried into the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania as a baby without a family.

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Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania

The Nyarugusu Camp is where our founder, Mapenzi, grew up until he was 15-years-old

Imagine having one bar of soap per month
to wash yourself, your clothes and your dishes. 

In some refugee camps, more than half of households have no access to soap. Those that do often get just one bar per month.

Natural
Handmade
Soaps

WHERE LOVE MEETS COMPASSION

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The Re.vert Mission

We believe in ethical and smart shopping. All of our products are carefully selected to ensure they align with our core values.

Sustainable

Zero Waste

Vegan

Recycled

Fair Trade

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