LAS VEGAS, Sept. 26, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas Sands
Corp. (NYSE: LVS) and international social enterprise Clean the
World today completed an unprecedented 24-hour global volunteer
effort to build 200,000 hygiene kits that will be distributed to
populations in need worldwide, including to help homeless people in
the United States.
More than 4,000 LVS Team Members and community volunteers
participated in the Las Vegas Sands Global Hygiene Build with
Clean the World – which was both organizations' largest
volunteer effort to date, resulting in the most kits ever built for
Clean the World at one time. The build was held at LVS'
Singapore, Macao, Bethlehem and Las
Vegas properties sequentially and all within a 24-hour
period on Saturday, starting at Marina Bay Sands, LVS' property
in Singapore, at 9 a.m. locally
and culminating at 6 p.m. Pacific
Time in Las Vegas. The
effort was part of LVS's global corporate citizenship program,
Sands Cares, and its ongoing partnership with Clean the World.
"Through this ambitious global Sands Cares event, we are helping
hundreds of thousands of people without access to hygiene supplies
to help them stay healthy," said Ron
Reese, senior vice president of corporate communications at
LVS. "Today showed the amazing impact people can have by uniting
around a single mission."
Each hygiene kit contains soap and other hygiene items collected
from Clean the World's hospitality partners, including LVS
properties globally. Soap is recycled through Clean the World's
sanitation and processing equipment and packed with other
amenities, such as shampoo, conditioner, a toothbrush and
toothpaste, to form individual personal care kits.
The global event was underwritten by LVS and also received
support from Sysco. LVS and Clean the World have a strong
partnership built upon a collective commitment to help people in
need while protecting the planet. Since 2011, LVS and Clean the
World have recycled more than 50 tons of waste from LVS properties
into more than 550,000 bars of soap.
"Today's accomplishment illustrates the collective commitment of
Las Vegas Sands and Clean the World to make our world healthier
through sustainable solutions that address and solve social ills. A
global build of this magnitude makes far-reaching impact, providing
reclaimed hygiene supplies to people and places we normally can't
reach – a win for people and a win for the planet," said
Shawn Seipler, founder and CEO of
Clean the World.
LVS' partnership with Clean the World is part of the company's
global corporate citizenship program, Sands Cares. Announced in
April 2014, Sands Cares manifests the
company's core corporate social responsibility focus: supporting
people in the company and the hospitality industry, making local
communities where LVS operates a better place to live and reducing
environmental impact on the planet. Sands Cares unites
corporate and property-level giving in communities where LVS
operates to address the most pressing issues in local communities
and make them better places to live. For more information about
Sands Cares and key initiatives, please visit
www.sandscares.sands.com.
About Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Las Vegas Sands
(NYSE: LVS) is the world's leading developer and operator of
Integrated Resorts. Our collection of Integrated Resorts in
Asia and the United States feature state-of-the-art
convention and exhibition facilities, premium accommodations,
world-class gaming and entertainment, destination retail and dining
including celebrity chef restaurants and many other amenities.
Our properties include the five-diamond Venetian and Palazzo
resorts and Sands Expo Center 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 and Sands Cotai Central, 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
nearly 50,000 employees worldwide, driving impact through its Sands
Cares corporate citizenship 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 with the mission of saving
millions of lives around the world. Clean the World leads a Global
Hygiene Revolution to distribute recycled soap and hygiene products
to children and families in in need. Clean the World is the largest
global recycler of hotel amenities with more than 4,000 hotel and
resort partners, and 500 event partners, throughout North
America. Since 2009, Clean the World has distributed more
than 25 million bars of soap to children and families in 99
countries worldwide, while fulfilling an environmental mission by
diverting 3,800 tons of hotel waste from polluting More
information: http://www.cleantheworld.org.
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