Clean the World & Guest Supply Partner to Provide 60,000 Hygiene Kits and Linens to Displaced Victims of Hurricane Harvey
Alliance provides hygiene kits with most needed supplies to Houstonians
ORLANDO, Fla., September 1, 2017 (Newswire.com) - Clean the World Foundation, a leader in Global Health, and Guest Supply, an industry leader in hospitality supply manufacturing and distribution serving the world's top hotel chains and independent properties, partner to provide 60,000 hygiene kits and linens to Hurricane Harvey victims in Houston.
Guest Supply is a subsidiary of Sysco, who is headquartered in Houston and employs 3,000 people in the area. "With a long-standing relationship with Clean the World, coupled with our personal connection to the people of Houston, we are honored to join forces to get hygiene supplies and linens to those in need," says Paul Xenis, President of Guest Supply. "We manufacture some of the most needed products by those impacted by Hurricane Harvey. Guest Supply is currently shipping towels, washcloths, blankets, soaps, bottled amenities, toothbrushes, toothpaste and other essential personal hygiene items that will be packaged into hygiene kits by Clean the World Foundation and sent to Houston."
Our goal is to get to a minimum of 60,000 hygiene kits, which will help us serve the 30,000 displaced victims that are now living in shelters and with family members.
Shawn Seipler, Chairman, Clean the World Foundation
With the help of over 300 volunteers, Clean the World has already packed and shipped over 20,000 hygiene kits to Texas. These hygiene kits contain basic supplies that are the most needed by victims including three bars of soap, body wash, toothbrush, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, and socks.
"We are working with relief organizations on the ground in Houston. It is reported that hygiene items and linens are the most needed outside of food and water. Our goal is to get to a minimum of 60,000 hygiene kits, which will help us serve the 30,000 displaced victims that are now living in shelters and with family members," says Shawn Seipler, Chairman of Clean the World Foundation. "We cannot do this without our continued relationship with Guest Supply. We are extremely thankful for their generous donation of supplies. Our commitment to recovery efforts will not end anytime soon. We will continue shipping out hygiene kits as long as there is a need."
Clean the World is working with a network of partners throughout Houston and the Greater South Texas Region to ensure that families have access to the hygiene supplies they need to stay healthy and prevent the spread of life-threatening diseases. The organization's greatest need to continue their mission is financial support and volunteers that can help package hygiene kits at their Orlando headquarters.
To learn more about the ongoing disaster relief efforts including updated hours for individuals that want to volunteer or donate, please visit https://cleantheworld.org/hurricane-harvey-relief.
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 41 million bars of Clean the World soap have been distributed in over 118 countries. Clean the World has served over 10 million individuals through its soap distribution and hygiene education programs. In addition, the Clean the World provides hygiene kits to relief organizations throughout North America. More information: CleanTheWorld.org.
About Guest Supply
Guest Supply, a Sysco company, has been the leading provider of hospitality products to the lodging industry for more than 35 years with more than 30,000 products sold in more than 25,000 well-known chains and independent properties around the globe. As the only global provider to the hotel and lodging industry, the company maintains relationships with leading hotels around the world. Manufacturing, distribution, and purchasing resources are strategically located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, ensuring superior product selection and availability, as well as quick and efficient response to meet virtually every need. For more information, visit https://www.guestsupply.com.
Source: Clean the World Foundation