LAS VEGAS, Aug. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas
Sands is collaborating with social enterprise Clean the World and
humanitarian organization American Red Cross for a property-wide
hygiene and comfort kit build to support disaster and social relief
efforts. This will be the company's first build with American Red
Cross and its fifth annual effort to build a total of 80,000
hygiene kits worldwide that will improve the health and well-being
of populations in need with Clean the World.
More than 500 of volunteers will come together at The Venetian,
The Palazzo, and Sands Expo on September
22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to
assemble 35,000 hygiene and comfort kits. Volunteers will work
together to build 15,000 hygiene kits for Clean the World and
20,000 comfort kits for the American Red Cross. The kits will be
filled with basic hygiene amenities including soap, shampoo,
conditioner, lotion/bath gel, a toothbrush, toothpaste, a
washcloth, and an inspirational notecard. The hygiene kit's soaps
are collected from Clean the World's hospitality partners,
including LVS properties around the world, and then recycled
through Clean the World's soap sanitation and processing
equipment.
Through Sands Cares, the company's global corporate giving
program, LVS is committed to making the communities where they
operate a better place to live by providing resources and solutions
to the issues most important. By taking an active approach on
community preparedness, the company is dedicated to providing aid
during times of disaster and emergencies. In continuing to support
community resiliency throughout Southern
Nevada, Las Vegas Sands Team Members will engage in various
volunteer efforts with the Red Cross of Southern Nevada that will include assembling
comfort kits— provided to victims of home fires, or other
disasters, that might be left without basic hygiene needs—and
organizing and participating in a company-wide blood drive. Another
vital part of a resilient community is fulfilling the need for
blood. In the U.S., someone needs blood every two seconds.
"Our partnership with Las Vegas Sands will provide hope to those
impacted by disasters and hope for those who are in need of
life-saving blood. We are grateful for Las Vegas Sands' community
efforts and know that their simple acts of kindness can make a big
difference in the lives of one very strong Las Vegas community," said Alan Diskin, executive director of the American
Red Cross.
In 2017, LVS and Clean the World came together to provide a
source for hygiene relief to those experiencing homelessness in
Las Vegas, the company's
headquarters. Sands Cares Fresh Start Mobile Showers Powered by
Clean the World was launched to provide access to a private
shower, hygiene supplies, and other resources to the homeless
community. The traveling hygiene unit is the first of its kind in
the Southern Nevada community and has
provided more than 5,000 showers and hygiene kits to
users.
"Each year, we look forward to coming together not only as a
company, but as a larger community to bring awareness and help,
whether it's through access to a simple necessity such as soap or
in-kind support," said Ron Reese,
senior vice president of global communications and corporate
affairs at Las Vegas Sands. "We have a responsibility to all of the
communities where our Integrated Resorts are located worldwide to
ensure we are doing our part to help improve the way of life for
all members of the community. Our continued partnership with Clean
the World has allowed us to become ambassadors in hygiene education
and most importantly, has shown us just how much of an impact of
our efforts make when we work together to find how our own
resources and abilities can be of service to the issues that our
community members are most vulnerable to."
The global hygiene kit build will take place between August and
December 2018 at LVS properties in
Macao, Singapore, Bethlehem and Las
Vegas. After the completion of this year's build events, LVS
properties will have created a total of 500,000 hygiene kits since
its partnership with Clean the World to bring awareness of its
mission to promote good health and well-being around the globe
through improved access to soap and other hygiene products.
The global kit build events also provide financial support to Clean
the World – for each kit assembled, LVS contributes $1 to the Clean the World Foundation to
accelerate its mission in two critical areas, ongoing hygiene
education and disaster response.
"Many families cannot afford the basic hygiene products each of
us take for granted. The annual Las Vegas Sands Global Hygiene Kit
build has allowed us to distribute over a half a million
life-saving kits to individuals and families experiencing
homelessness in local communities," said Shawn Seipler, founder and CEO of Clean the
World. "Overall, Las Vegas Sands has contributed over
$2 million to our mission, allowing
us to expand our programs both in the
United States and in Asia.
Through the generous support of partners like Las Vegas Sands, we
are able to dramatically reduce the spread of hygiene-related
illnesses and save millions of lives globally."
For the past seven years, LVS and Clean the World have
collaborated to promote its hygiene mission. Clean the World has
recycled over 605,000 pounds (302 tons) of waste from LVS
properties into more than 2.6 million bars of soap – material that
otherwise would have gone to landfill. LVS' support of Clean
the World is part of the company's global corporate giving program,
Sands Cares. For more information about Sands Cares and key
initiatives, please visit www.sandscares.sands.com.
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 leisure and business
amenities. We pioneered the MICE-driven Integrated Resort, a
unique, industry-leading and extremely successful model that serves
both the leisure and business 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
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, Hong Kong, and Punta
Cana and leads a "Global Hygiene Revolution" to distribute
recycled soap and hygiene products from more than 5,000 hotel and
resort partners. The organization benefits 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 45 million bars of Clean the World soap
have been distributed in over 127 countries. Clean the World has
served over 10 million individuals through its soap distribution
and hygiene education programs. In addition, Clean the World
provides hygiene kits to relief organizations throughout
North America. More
information: CleantheWorld.org.
About the Red Cross
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides emotional
support to victims of disasters; supplies nearly half of the
nation's blood; teaches lifesaving skills; provides international
humanitarian aid; and supports military members and their families.
The Red Cross is a charitable organization — not a government
agency — and depends on volunteers and the generosity of the
American public to perform its mission. For more information,
visit www.redcross.org or join our blog
at http://blog.redcross.org.
Contacts:
Kristin Koca
Kristin.koca@sands.com
702-414-3218
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