Soap for Hope - YYC

Soap for Hope - YYC Soap for Hope Canada - changing lives by providing dignity and hope through hygiene. See more in Our Story. SfHC picks up gently used hygiene products (e.g.

We repurpose used hotel hygiene amenities into usable product to donate to our communities most vulnerable populations. Soap for Hope - YYC makes our communities better by enhancing personal health and environmental protection. soap bars, shampoo bottles, etc.) and end of life products (linens, robes, slippers) from hotel community partners and recycles these for the benefit of disadvantaged membe

rs of the community. By picking up, reprocessing, and recycling these items, SfHC is significantly extending the use of hygiene products through redistribution that reduces the volumes of these products that would otherwise end up in landfill sites. Staff and volunteers reprocess these products for re-use in urban shelters, community facilities and remote communities.

2020 HIGHLIGHTS

17,144 Volunteer hours.
370 Community Facilities.
82 Hotels.
254,930 Soap Distributed.
1,047,238 Hygiene Products Delivered.
50,518 linens Distributed.
91,537 lbs redirected from the landfills. Soap for Hope Canada, with its mission to “change lives by providing hope and dignity through hygiene,” began in 2015 to help shelters, transitional homes, food banks and marginalized people in our communities with their basic hygiene needs. Using its proven regional supply-chain and franchise methodology, Soap for Hope Canada opened its second warehouse in Calgary, Alberta in 2016 and plans to continue this service model expansion into other provinces. Opportunities to support us are available through
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/soap-for-hope-canada-society/
https://app.skipthedepot.com/ #

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2626 12th Street NE
Calgary, AB
T2E7K3

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We are 3 1/2 years in Alberta, we have volunteer opportunities to grow this non-profit. Our head office is in Victoria, BC. Currently, we supply 50 shelters/organizations in the Airdrie and Calgary, AB area. To made a financial donation, please go to: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/disaster-aid-canada/ Any funds donated to the Soap for Hope YYC program will help supply someone in need with basic hygiene products.

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm

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Our Story

#SoapforHopeYYC started 3 1/2 years ago when we partnered with WestJet in collecting new travel hygiene from the flight crews on layover. We now also collect new & used travel sized soap & shampoo products collected by local hotels in our Caring Community Partner Program. These are put into Hygiene Kits, distributed to local shelters & community outreach programs in the Airdrie/Calgary, AB area as well as for international aid.

The hotel program, where we take used hotel hygiene products and sort, wash and reprocess with the help of local volunteers is where most of our products come from. We have 29 local hotels in our Caring Community Partner program and we are hoping more will join the cause of reducing the waste from the landfill of usable product so that we may help our communities most vulnerable populations. These hotels pay to be in our program allowing us to pick up from them and distribute the reprocessed hygiene products to 50 local shelters and community outreach programs in Airdrie, Calgary and Cochrane as well as provide International aid when required. Thank you for reading about us, we love helping people.

We accept new, used and empty hygiene bottles from local residents. Our program has kept 46, 750 soap bars and 34, 755 hygiene products out of the landfill in 2017.