Soap is a small but indispensable detail in living a healthy life. I believe having access to soap preserves grace and dignity. Being clean gives a sense of self-value, a sense of potential, of possibilities. When you are clean, you feel more confident and secure about yourself. Confidence in yourself leads to confidence in your future.

 

I created this project to help refugees like me. I want to help people to help themselves to retain their grace and dignity with the most basic of unmet needs—soap.

— Mapenzi Kinage, Founder

 

We are on a mission to provide refugees with more access to soap by giving them the power to make their own soap with simple, widely available materials, leading to more self-sufficiency in their hygiene. Across much of the world, soap is expensive and difficult to find. Soap is an essential tool to fight against disease by killing bacteria through sanitizing your body, clothes, and everyday items, such as cups and plates. 

 

In some refugee camps, more than half of households have no access to soap. Those that do often get just one bar per month to clean themselves, their clothes and their dishes. Access to sanitation is access to hope and good health, something that can be hard to find and keep in refugee camps.