LAS VEGAS, Oct. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Las Vegas Sands
Corp. (NYSE: LVS) completed part of its worldwide volunteer effort
last Saturday, October 1 to build
100,000 hygiene kits this year for social enterprise Clean the
World to help improve the health and well-being of populations in
need. Kits assembled last Saturday by volunteers at The Venetian
Las Vegas will benefit a number of non-profit organizations in
Las Vegas serving homeless
populations in the area as well as military families.
The volunteer event in Las
Vegas at The Venetian is one of a series of hygiene kit
builds at LVS' properties in Macao, Singapore, Bethlehem and Las
Vegas between July and December in 2016. The effort is part
of LVS's global corporate citizenship program, Sands Cares, and its
ongoing partnership with Clean the World to support its mission of
promoting good health and well-being around the globe through
improved access to soap and hygiene education. This is the third
consecutive year Las Vegas Sands has built hygiene kits for Clean
the World, and the 2016 build events will bring the total number of
hygiene kits created with Las Vegas Sands to nearly 500,000.
"Our series of hygiene kit builds over the past three years have
helped protect thousands of vulnerable people around the world from
hygiene-related illnesses and death, while promoting a sense of
well-being and dignity," said Ron
Reese, senior vice president of global communications and
corporate affairs at Las Vegas Sands. "It's united our team members
with volunteers in our local communities to support a truly
remarkable mission."
The annual Las Vegas Sands Global Hygiene Kit Build is one
component of the company's long-term support of Clean the World.
Since 2011, LVS and Clean the World have recycled more than 190
tons of waste from LVS properties into more than 1.8 million bars
of soap. In 2014, LVS announced an unprecedented $1 million donation to Clean the World, helping
the organization to double its production of recycled soap and
expand service into new areas.
"Las Vegas Sands has been an incredible partner for Clean the
World, and the annual hygiene kit build shows the deep commitment
the company and its team members make to our mission," said
Shawn Seipler, founder and executive
director of Clean the World. "We're so grateful to the company and
community volunteers for the generous gifts of their time,
enthusiasm and hard work to help those in need."
Each hygiene kit includes soap collected from Clean the World's
hospitality partners, including LVS properties around the world,
and then recycled through Clean the World's soap sterilization and
re-manufacturing process. Other amenities in the kit include
shampoo, conditioner, a toothbrush and toothpaste.
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 provides a cohesive
approach to corporate and property-level giving and support in
local communities where LVS operates to address the most pressing
issues. 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 Venetian and The Palazzo resorts and
Sands Expo 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, Sands Cotai Central
and The Parisian Macao, 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 more
than 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 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 4,000 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 30 million bars of Clean the World soap have been distributed
in 100 countries. Through its "ONE Project," Clean the World
provides hygiene kits to relief organizations throughout
North America. More information:
CleanTheWorld.org.
Contacts:
Kristin McLarty
Kristin.Mclarty@sands.com
702-414-3218
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