Recycled hotel soaps for the underprivileged

Dear difteurs,

Every other Thursday, the volunteer collective of Générations Entraide mobilizes in Lyon 8 to distribute food parcels, offer hot meals, chat over coffee... And recently, donating soaps! 🧼

For this association, access to hygiene is an integral part of their gifts for the most disadvantaged. This also includes the provision of a hairdresser!

The volunteers welcomed us for the duration of a distribution, with plenty of smiles and good humor. Since our partner associations are the ones on the ground every day, it's always very important for us to participate regularly in distributions. It's an opportunity to hand over our soaps to the beneficiaries, to meet them and, above all, to get a better idea of their reality.

A difficult reality, which puts our feet back on the ground. Our congratulations and thanks to Générations Entraide, who showed us that even in the freezing cold, we all have the power, for a few hours, to warm hearts 💙

The year 2024 ends on a high note 🫧

This summer, the UNISOAP team experienced a special event: the completion of our hygiene product inventory at our partner ESAT!
👉 The result: 1,556 boxes for People and Planet 🌍
Because today, UNISOAP is much more than a soap recycling business. We want to give everyone access to hygiene, and that also means recovering unsold products from hygiene and cosmetics brands. 🪥
We structure this activity to give our beneficiaries hygiene kits, but also bulk products. This enables us to meet their needs even better! 🤝
This team inventory has enabled us to realize the scale of our actions and the involvement of our partners: thousands of products saved from the garbage can, participating in the common good. 💙
We were assisted in this mission by members of Boho Green Make-up, one of our committed partners.

A huge thank you to them, and to all the companies who bring their bubble to the building thanks to their product donations and to our partner associations who act on the ground. 👏

Together, we can go even further! ♻️

Did you know?The date 28/05 wasn't chosen at random! 28 represents the average number of days in a menstrual cycle and 5 that of the duration of menstruation.
Women are among the audiences UNISOAP is prioritizing to help in 2024! 🫶
For this, we can rely on the support of our partner associations, who distribute our soaps, hygiene products and kits to their beneficiaries.
This is the case of Féminité Sans Abri, which distributes hygiene and beauty products to combat the precariousness of women. This week, a hundred kits will be donated to the Permanence d'Accès aux Soins de l'Hôpital Saint Joseph Saint Luc in Lyon thanks to our joint action! 🧼
Let's never forget that hygiene is a right, a necessity. And menstrual hygiene products are among the most difficult to collect... and the most important for women in need.
As Laëtitia, a volunteer in charge of the Lyon area, so aptly put it, and we thank her wholeheartedly for her testimony: "L'union fait la force!" 🤝 So, if you'd like to add your bubble to the edifice with donations of menstrual hygiene products, contact us 💌
Together, we can make an even greater impact for those in need... 💙

For some time now, we've been keen to increase our impact, to meet the need for access to hygiene that extends, unfortunately, far beyond our French borders...
To give you an idea:
🇫🇷 In France, 3 million people have no access to basic hygiene products.
🌍 Worldwide, an estimated 2.3 billion people lack the infrastructure to wash their hands with soap and water.
➡️ With this in mind, UNISOAP is launching its first branch abroad: UNISOAP UAE, in the United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪
In this country, where tourism infrastructure is on a massive scale, the resources that could be provided by hotels are up to the task! 🧼
To remain in a responsible and reasoned logic, the project is supported locally by a local player: the social enterprise Goumbook, with whom we've been working for several months now 🤝 With this in mind, the entire process is being implemented locally: collection, recycling and distribution 😉
Further proof that, when we join forces, we can act on a grand scale! 

Together, we can have even more impact for People and for the Planet 🚀 🍃 

In October, UNISOAP launched its ambassador community, to great fanfare!
When the APICIL Group, one of our long-standing partners, offered us one of their advertising spaces on France TV replays, we saw a great opportunity to highlight our actions on a large scale 📽
No need for long speeches, just watch this video to understand UNISOAP's ecological, social and solidarity-based project!

Partner, donor and now ambassador: everyone can act at their own level to 

And help us to:

📣 Captains and future captains, you too can support us and join our community of ambassadors!
Together, we can have even more impact 🤝

"I'm going to take a shower!" 🚿

You have to get out in the field to really understand how commonplace this phrase is for those without access to hygiene.

 

The UNISOAP team spent an afternoon following the Vroom Shower. This is the camper van that Béchir Dridi has transformed into a mobile shower, and which provides over 300 showers a month for homeless people in Lyon.

 

Beyond simple showers, the Vroom Shower offers a convivial moment with beneficiaries. By creating a bond with them, Béchir gives them back access to hygiene, health, but also and above all, self-esteem.

We are proud to contribute to the actions of our partner associations and to have seen first-hand the positive impact of the hygiene products we distribute (UNISOAP recycled soaps and hygiene kits).

Together, we can go even further 🌍 🧼

At UNISOAP, we're committed to transforming waste from the hospitality sector into resources for the underprivileged.
Beyond recycled soaps, we're now makinghygiene kits to cover ever more needs. The kits are thus made up of a UNISOAP soap and products collected from cosmetics brands and manufacturers (if you know of a brand that knows... that would like to donate products 😉).
For their manufacture, it's quite natural that we chose to work with a second ALGED structure: ESAT Robert Lafon.
Through their sewing workshop, we're carrying out one more ecological action and a great partnership! 🍃
We explain:

All this wouldn't be possible without your support!

Together, we can have even more impact 🌍

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