"In Uganda alone, the deaths of 200,000 children in a single year were due to preventable diseases—a number that could have been reduced by 76,000 if children had access to soap and proper hand washing."

The Global Soap Project recovers and recycles soap from American hotels. The discarded soap is sanitized, melted and remolded into new bars, then distributed to refugee camps in Africa. We figure, with 4.6-million hotel rooms in the United States, an estimated 2.6-million soap bars are discarded every day. Once this soap has been sanitized and remolded into new soap, it greatly improves the quality of life for hundreds of thousands of refugees, one bar at a time.
www.GlobalSoap.org

On May 1, 2010, the Atlanta Center for Self Sufficiency (ACSS) was formed from a merger of two strong organizations with similar missions, the Samaritan House of Atlanta (www.SamHouse.org) and the Atlanta Enterprise Center (www.atlantaenterprisecenter.org) resulting in an innovative, results-oriented organization. The mission of the ACSS is to break the cycle of homelessness by enabling people to transform their lives through sustainable employment and income.



Samaritan House’s founding Director, Thomas Reuter, also had a dream: why not use the Café, which is not used for clients on weekends, to offer a “gourmet Sunday Brunch” to Atlantans, with profits from the brunch supporting Samaritan House? And with that dream, in November, 2004, the Café Brunch began www.cafe458atl.com. Nearly every cook and server is a volunteer, and all tips as well as other proceeds go directly to the agency.

In 2009 the Café 458 “Celebrity” Brunch was started, and once or twice a month a local restaurant “Celebrity Chef” prepares the meal. The Café has had Top Chefs and even the Mayor among behind the cooks line.

In addition to great food, this award-winning restaurant has a passion for helping others! Café 458's Sunday Brunch offers comfort food fused with nouveau southern style cuisine.