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Soap-recycling programme making positive impact in Haiti

Published Sun, Jun 18, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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Port-au-Prince

A HAITIAN programme to recycle used soap bars from luxury hotels has proven a win-win-win proposition, reducing waste, helping fight water-borne disease and giving employees such as Magoiana Fremond the chance to send her children to school and let them "eat every day". The project, simple but effective, has had a remarkable impact.

Laure Bottinelli discovered the idea of soap-recycling while spending time in South-east Asia. Inspired to try something similar in Haiti, she and two associates in January 2016 created the Anacaona company, Haiti's first and only soap-recycling enterpris…

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