Those soap bars you hardly use when you check in at hotels have found a new purpose.

The Soap for Hope, a global program of Diversey with hotels, the initiative aims to eliminate soap wastes from the 938 rooms of City of Dreams Manila’s luxury hotels, will reprocess used soaps into new soap bars and donate them to various charitable institutions and NGO that the resort supports. City of Dreams hotels include NÜWA, Nobu and Hyatt.

The Manila unit of the integrated resorts held a kick off activity of the first Soap for Hope program in the country’s integrated resorts to strengthen its commitment to long-term sustainability of its operations through employee volunteerism, reduction of its environmental impact and development of local communities.

“City of Dreams Manila team is delighted to support the Soap for Hope program to help reduce waste for landfills and provide basic materials for sanitation to our adopted communities and orphanages in Parañaque and other nearby cities. This project will not be possible without our partner organizations — Diversey and Mesa Ni Misis and most importantly the unwavering enthusiasm and spirit of volunteerism of our employees. In 2017 alone, more than 4,000 employees have joined various CSR initiatives and certainly this number will continue to grow this year,” City of Dreams Manila’s senior vice president and chief operating officer Kevin Benning said.