LAS VEGAS, July 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas
Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS), and social enterprise Clean the World
announced today a first-of-its-kind service in Las Vegas to help homeless people. The
Sands Cares Fresh Start Mobile Showers Powered by Clean the
World is a traveling hygiene unit that visits locations serving
the homeless to provide showers, hygiene supplies and other
resources.
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LVS contributed more than $200,000
to Sands Cares Fresh Start Mobile Showers, which was
unveiled in Las Vegas on
July 27, and will offer approximately
250 showers per week. To reach people in need, Clean the
World and Las Vegas Sands have partnered with four Las Vegas organizations to offer the service
through their homeless community outreach efforts, including
WestCare, CARE Complex, Nevada Homeless Alliance and the Nevada
Partnership for Homeless Youth. Sands Cares Fresh Start
Mobile Showers will provide hygiene services at a partner
organization one day each week, where clients can also receive
access to a wide array of support, such as emergency shelter, food
and clothing supplies, medical care and detoxification
services.
"Having access to regular hygiene is a fundamental part of good
health and well-being. But it's also part of personal dignity – it
can create a turning point in someone's life," said Shawn Seipler, founder and chief executive
officer of Clean the World. "That's our hope for the Sands
Cares Fresh Start Mobile Showers Powered by Clean the World –
to give people the opportunity to start their day in a new
direction."
Las Vegas has a high need for
homelessness relief programs. The U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development (HUD) reports that Las Vegas has the sixth largest population of
homeless individuals among major cities, and has the third highest
number of unaccompanied homeless youth. In Nevada, more than
80 percent of unaccompanied homeless youth are unsheltered – the
highest rate in the nation.
"Homelessness is a critical issue in Las Vegas, and Las Vegas Sands is dedicated to
making an impact by providing resources to organizations working in
the trenches to help people living on the streets," said
Ron Reese, senior vice president of
global communications and corporate affairs at Las Vegas
Sands. "We've worked with Clean the World on a variety of
programs to assist vulnerable populations with hygiene
supplies, and the Sands Cares Fresh Start Mobile Showers
came about through our collective desire to do more in the
community to provide relief to people most in need."
In 2015, LVS began a multi-faceted program to address
homelessness in Las Vegas through
its global corporate giving program, Sands Cares. In addition
to the support for the mobile shower unit, LVS has announced grants
totaling more than $1.5 million over
the past two years, as well as team member volunteer support, in
three key areas; help meet immediate needs for those who are
homeless, including hygiene, food and clothing and other resources;
find solutions for the homelessness issue in Las Vegas and Southern Nevada; and increase awareness and
advocate for homelessness support locally, regionally and
nationally.
The introduction of the Sands Cares Fresh Start Mobile
Showers is also a major expansion of LVS' long-term support of
Clean the World. Since 2011, LVS and Clean the World have
recycled more than 488,000 pounds of discarded soap and amenities
for distribution to underprivileged communities and relief
organizations. LVS has donated nearly $2 million to accelerate CTW's mission, helping
the organization to double its production of recycled soap and
expand service into new areas. Additionally each year, Las
Vegas Sands team members around the world unite with local
communities to assemble thousands of hygiene kits for Clean the
World to benefit populations in need around the world, including
those impacted by homelessness in Las
Vegas.
"The Sands Cares Fresh Start Mobile Showers Powered by Clean
the World is a first-of-its kind offering for our organization,
and we greatly value the investment LVS has made to help Clean the
World expand and grow over the years – from this program to the
major investment in our Las Vegas
recycling center to ongoing kit builds and other programs," said
Seipler. "With the generous support from Sands Cares, we have been
able to help more people, in more places around the world, in more
impactful ways – it's truly been a game-changing partnership for
us."
About Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Las Vegas Sands Corp.
(NYSE: LVS) is the world's pre-eminent developer and operator of
world-class Integrated Resorts that feature luxury hotels;
best-in-class gaming; retail; dining and entertainment; Meetings,
Incentives, Convention and Exhibition (MICE) facilities; and many
other business and leisure amenities. We pioneered the
MICE-driven Integrated Resort, a unique, industry-leading and
extremely successful model that serves both the business and
leisure tourism markets.
Our properties include The Venetian and The Palazzo resorts and
Sands Expo in Las Vegas, Sands
Bethlehem in Eastern Pennsylvania,
and the iconic Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Through majority ownership in Sands
China Ltd., LVS owns a portfolio of properties on the Cotai Strip
in Macao, including The Venetian
Macao, The Plaza and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Sands Cotai Central
and The Parisian Macao, as well as the Sands Macao on the
Macao Peninsula.
LVS is dedicated to being a good corporate citizen, anchored by
the core tenets of delivering a great working environment for our
more than 50,000 team members worldwide, driving impact through its
Sands Cares corporate giving program and leading innovation with
the company's award-winning Sands ECO360° global sustainability
program. To learn more, please visit www.sands.com.
About Clean the World
Clean the World is a social enterprise dedicated to the mission of
saving millions of lives around the world while simultaneously
diverting hotel waste from landfills. Clean the World operates soap
recycling centers in Orlando,
Las Vegas and Hong Kong, and leads a "Global Hygiene
Revolution" to distribute recycled soap and hygiene products from
more than 5,000 hotel and resort partners to children and families
in countries with a high pre-adolescent death rate due to acute
respiratory infection (pneumonia) and diarrheal diseases (cholera)
– which are two of the top killers of children under the age of
five. Since 2009, more than 40 million bars of Clean the World soap
have been distributed in 115 countries. In addition, the Clean the
World Foundation provides hygiene kits to relief organizations
throughout North America and over
5 million individuals have received soap and hygiene education
through its programs. More information: CleanTheWorld.org.
Contacts:
Kristin Koca
Kristin.Koca@sands.com
702-414-3218
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