LHM is very pleased to be in partnership with Mission Possible--great friends of ours also working in the DTES--and Clean The World, of Orlando, Florida, in an exciting new project!
Here’s the announcement from Clean The World’s latest newsletter:
Clean the World expands in the Great White North
Vancouver facility - Open, accepting and feeling goodClean the World and Mission Possible, a downtown Eastside Vancouver charity, have teamed to help rid the Canadian landfills of needless waste, while providing jobs and delivering life-saving soaps to people in need.
The new facility officially opened Aug. 16 and already has received positive media attention and community support. Brian Postlewait, executive director of Mission Possible, says the effort to recycle soaps will also help change the face of the community in downtown Vancouver.
“We want to set up a hotel collection system, soap processing operation and market for local buyers,” says Postlewait. “Many of the women from Linwood House Ministries who are employed in this effort to help clean and sanitize the hotel soaps and bottled amenities are residents of the impoverished Eastside. They need a helping hand to get their lives back on track.
"Now they can recapture personal pride and responsibility by working for a good cause, while also knowing that their efforts will help others in similar situations lead healthier lives.”
The soaps and shampoos will be distributed to local homeless shelters and to communities in need around the world through Clean the World’s distribution network and strong global partnerships. “It’s a simple solution to the complex problem of fatal disease,” says Postlewait. “We hope to be a big part of that solution by improving lives at home and abroad. It feels good to be a part of that.”
And do you recognize that beautiful, smiling face above? That’s our friend Grace, a long-time member of the Linwood House family. (And our friend Brian Postlewait in the background.)
Read about the role Clean The World's global partners Floating Doctors and World Vision have played in helping to distribute the recycled soap around the world here. We are very happy to be a part of such an incredible project.
From Gwen McVicker, President of LHM:
Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn write in Half the Sky "We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way--not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen." And we would add, the kind that transforms abused, addicted, prostituted women into successful businesswomen contributing to the community in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver and to the world. Please join this journey and give so that many more women can be recruited and trained for this project.
If you would like to donate specifically to this exciting work, please designate your gift “Clean The World project”. This category can also be found on our CanadaHelps online giving page.
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