Sundara回收與再生肥皂計畫-守護衛生條件落後國家孩子的健康

[size=3][color=plum]印象中，目前環保推廣團體及大部分的人僅是自製手工肥皂或自用環保再生肥皂，這是我第一次知道有這麼棒且又有意義的活動計畫。[/color][/size]
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[size=3][color=#dda0dd]我想如同文章所述世界上仍有許多衛生條件差的區域，如果有更多國家[color=plum]的人一起響應推廣、一起守護自己國家與鄰近國家偏遠地區的孩子，是一件很棒的事!!! [/color][/color][/size]
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根據世界衛生組織的研究，世界上有超過2百萬的孩童死於肺炎或腹瀉，然而這個數值是可以透過洗手來減少的。聯合利華公司估計，在印度有7千萬人口沒有肥皂可用。有鑒於這些淺而易見的現況，Erin成立了Sundara，一個專注於提升印度、烏干達、緬甸等窮困區域衛生條件的非營利組織。[/color][/size]
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[size=3][color=teal]Sundara注意到全球飯店業，每年丟棄的肥皂高達數十億個。他們決定將這些將被丟棄的肥皂加以消毒、處理，讓肥皂重生，同時也在當地建立完整的肥皂再生作業網絡。這是一個完整的配套方案：不只是處理肥皂、提供當地婦女就業機會，他們也致力於提升居民衛教知識，長遠的預防因衛生問題而導致的疾病。
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[size=3][color=teal]從2013年成立以來，Sundara已經在印度、烏干達、緬甸回收了2,900公斤的肥皂，共幫助超過4,000名孩子，讓他們免於衛生疾病，健康長大。[/color][/size]

[size=3]Sundara官網[/size][url=http://sundarafund.org/][size=3]http://sundarafund.org/[/size][/url]
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[size=3]1.中文編譯[/size][url=http://www.seinsights.asia/article/3290/3271/3886][size=3]http://www.seinsights.asia/article/3290/3271/3886[/size][/url]
[size=3]2.原文報導[/size][url=http://socialearth.org/sundara-recycles-hotel-soap-to-prevent-disease-in-the-developing-world][size=3]http://socialearth.org/sundara-recycles-hotel-soap-to-prevent-disease-in-the-developing-world[/size][/url]

[[i] 本帖最後由 一朵浮雲 於 2016-5-2 11:52 編輯 [/i]]

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[b][size=3][color=Purple]謝謝浮雲公主的分享:victory: :handshake :lol

澳洲一直有這類的活動, 做的蠻好的:victory: :victory:
名字是 Soap Aid
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[url]http://www.soapaid.org/[/url]

[b][size=3]Michael Matulick from Melbourne-based not-for-profit group Soap Aid, with soap made from recycled hotel soap. Photo: Simon Schluter[/size][/b]
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[[i] 本帖最後由 阿管 於 2016-5-3 00:24 編輯 [/i]]

[b][size=3]Melbourne's recycled soap is saving lives in India
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[url]http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/melbournes-recycled-soap-is-saving-lives-in-india-20150227-13qqic.html[/url]

[size=2]We've all done it. Ripped open a packet of soap in a hotel bathroom only to use it a couple of times before checking out and heading home.

Few would ever wonder what happens to that barely used bar. Fact is, it ends up in landfill. Millions of tonnes of "waste soap" a year is generated by the hotel industry worldwide. But not for much longer, if the Melbourne-based not-for-profit group Soap Aid gets its way.

In the last five months alone Soap Aid has collected more than a tonne of used soap from the city's hotels. Once this is broken down and made into fresh bars at a purpose built factory in Braeside, the soap is ready to go global.
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[size=2][b]Soap made from the recycled hotel soap on the left. Photo: Simon Schluter[/b][/size]

[size=2]The first soap shipment of 140,000 bars is due to arrive in Patna in the north-east Indian state of Bihar in March. The bars will be distributed to 2000 disadvantaged families by the local Rotary group.

"It's the ultimate trash-to-treasure story," said Soap Aid chief executive Michael Matulick. "We're repurposing this trash from one part of the world and making it into a reusable commodity that can save lives."

The reconditioned 100-gram bars carry with them a vital health message – highlighted most recently by the hepatitis A outbreak linked to contaminated frozen berries.[/size]

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[size=2][b]Soap Aid chief executive Michael Matulick hands out recycled soap bar to schoolchildren in the Indian city of Patna.[/b]

"It is suspected that some of those people packing the berries in China were infected with hepatitis A," said Martyn Jeggo, director of Deakin University's Geelong centre for emerging infectious diseases. "It is transmitted through faeces and then through dirty hands. If they were washing their hands with soap, this wouldn't be happening."

According to the World Health Organisation, more than half the 9000 children who die each day from hygiene-related diseases in poor communities could be saved by washing their hands with soap.

Professor Jeggo, director of health programs at Soap Aid, said the city of Patna was selected to receive the reconditioned soap because its population and level of poverty meant the program could have a significant impact.

"We grew up being asked 'have you washed your hands?'," Professor Jeggo said. "The message is instilled in us from a very early age."

But not every community is so lucky. Mr Matulick said when he went to India to meet the people of Patna last December he took with him some soap bars to hand out to schoolchildren. Some of them didn't know what it was.

"They didn't know if it was something to eat or what it was," Mr Matulick said. "They were so thrilled to get a gift. Being given something was so foreign to them."

He said a second shipment was due to depart for India by the end of July.

So far 30 Melbourne hotels have signed up, representing 5500 hotel rooms. Mr Matulick said he hoped the program, which has also sent soap to Papua New Guinea, Cambodia and the Philippines, would expand and set up soap recycling factories overseas.
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[[i] 本帖最後由 阿管 於 2016-5-3 00:28 編輯 [/i]]

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[size=3][color=darkorchid]感覺這個世界處處充滿愛~~~~:loveliness:[/color][/size]

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感謝一朵浮雲的介紹
抱歉從來沒聽過這種活動
現在又在這裡學多了一點 :handshake

感謝