Las Vegas Sands Builds 35,000 Hygiene Kits with Clean the World

LAS VEGAS—Las Vegas Sands Corp. completed part of its worldwide volunteer effort recently to build 100,000 hygiene kits this year for social enterprise Clean the World to help improve the health and well-being of populations in need. Kits assembled by volunteers at The Venetian Las Vegas will benefit a number of non-profit organizations in Las Vegas serving homeless populations in the area as well as military families.

The volunteer event in Las Vegas at The Venetian is one of a series of hygiene kit builds at LVS’ properties in Macao, Singapore, Bethlehem and Las Vegas between July and December in 2016. The effort is part of LVS’ global corporate citizenship program, Sands Cares, and its ongoing partnership with Clean the World to support its mission of promoting good health and well-being around the globe through improved access to soap and hygiene education. This is the third consecutive year Las Vegas Sands has built hygiene kits for Clean the World, and the 2016 build events will bring the total number of hygiene kits created with Las Vegas Sands to nearly 500,000.

At the event in early October, more than 600 community volunteers and team members from The Venetian, The Palazzo and Sands Expo Center worked together to build 35,000 hygiene kits to benefit people in need in the Las Vegas community. Las Vegas Sands will host build events at all of its properties globally in 2016 to build a total of 100,000 kits for Clean the World.

“Our series of hygiene kit builds over the past three years have helped protect thousands of vulnerable people around the world from hygiene-related illnesses and death, while promoting a sense of well-being and dignity,” said Ron Reese, Senior Vice President of Global Communications and Corporate Affairs at Las Vegas Sands. “It’s united our team members with volunteers in our local communities to support a truly remarkable mission.”

Almost 200 Tons of Soap Waste Recycled

The annual Las Vegas Sands Global Hygiene Kit Build is one component of the company’s long-term support of Clean the World. Since 2011, LVS and Clean the World have recycled more than 190 tons of waste from LVS properties into more than 1.8 million bars of soap. In 2014, LVS announced a $1 million donation to Clean the World, helping the organization to double its production of recycled soap and expand service into new areas.

“Las Vegas Sands has been an incredible partner for Clean the World, and the annual hygiene kit build shows the deep commitment the company and its team members make to our mission,” said Shawn Seipler, founder and CEO of Clean the World. “We’re so grateful to the company and community volunteers for the generous gifts of their time, enthusiasm and hard work to help those in need.”

Each hygiene kit includes soap collected from Clean the World’s hospitality partners, including LVS properties around the world, and then recycled through Clean the World’s soap sterilization and re-manufacturing process. Other amenities in the kit include shampoo, conditioner, a toothbrush and toothpaste.

LVS’ partnership with Clean the World is part of the company’s global corporate citizenship program, Sands Cares. Announced in April 2014, Sands Cares manifests the company’s core corporate social responsibility focus: supporting people in the company and the hospitality industry, making local communities where LVS operates a better place to live and reducing environmental impact on the planet. Sands Cares provides a cohesive approach to corporate and property-level giving and support in local communities where LVS operates to address the most pressing issues. For more information about Sands Cares and key initiatives, visit www.sandscares.sands.com.