Help Advance Soap4Life Foundation's Lifesaving Mission:
Soap4Life Foundation is an independent social enterprise on a mission to provide life-saving soap, handwashing facilities and water filters to primary and pre-schools and families in Lao PDR.
Our aim is to provide handwashing facilities for use at 'critical times' - after using the toilet, when cooking, and before eating or feeding a baby. We'd love to hear from both public and private organizations that:
Implement water, sanitation and hygiene projects
Our aim is to provide handwashing facilities for use at 'critical times' - after using the toilet, when cooking, and before eating or feeding a baby. We'd love to hear from both public and private organizations that:
Implement water, sanitation and hygiene projects
- Distribute free handmade natural soap to children/families in remote villages
- Develop vocational training that will improve the families economic and health status.
- Provide a source for water filters that range from individual use to an entire village
- Distribute soap or hygiene materials
- Work in schools teaching proper sanitation activity by providing literature and posters supporting proper handwashing techniques.
SOAP, CLEAN WATER and PROPER HANDWASHING
Soap4Life adopts schools and villages where the children are at great risk of contracting deadly intestinal diseases because they either have not been properly trained to used clean water, wash their hands or
simply that there is no soap available to them. By providing hygiene training, building and installing proper hand washing facilities and donating soap which is used to enforce the training given during our school and village visitations, Soap4Life helps save lives. In addition to the handwashing station, the students are all given soap to take home and show their parents "what they learned in school' that day. |
CLEAN FILTERED WATER
Our mission is to connect people, businesses, and innovation together so people everywhere have clean and safe drinking water by providing them with water filters!All of our filters are assembled in the US (Colorado and Michigan) by our staff of volunteers. Village Water Filters has no paid employees. It is this staff of volunteers that allows us to bring our filters to you and other people in need at affordable costs.
OUR TECHNOLOGY
The Village Water Filters utilize a .1 micron hollow fiber membrane filter. The filter element itself is manufactured by NOK of Japan. Our filters remove all bacteria and protozoa to meet or exceed EPA standards.
Our filters do not remove dissolved solids, including chemicals and heavy metals. The useful life of the filter cannot be determined as it is dependent on the turbidity of the water and the degree of operator maintenance. The filters should last for an extended period of time (5+ years) if properly maintained. Proper use of a prefilter will extend the use of the filter. |
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Prior to the Soapmaker Training in Vientiane, the targeted villages are visited and soapmaking demonstrations are given to the villagers. The women are also taught proper bathing techniques for the babys.
Soap4Life trains both women and soapmakers who are supported in family business and marketing to promote economic development. When women operate a family business in developing economies, savings rise and spending shifts toward food, health, and education. By creating small family owned sustainable businesses making and selling natural and healthy soap products where the money earned and collected within the village remains in circulation benefiting the entire village. |
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
By training the women to make and sell soap products, money is available for better nutritional choices, better clothing, education for children and savings for medical emergencies. This is recognized by their village peers and helps the women on their path to becoming Socially Empowered in their villages.
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Who Are We?
Soap4Life Foundation is a small hands-on humanitarian organization (US E.I.N. #47-4441585 - 501c3) dedicated to improving hygiene, developing and supporting economic opportunities for critically impoverished families and developing a path for women to attain empowerment among their peers.