The Soap Kitchen's Involvement
Our interest and participation in our community go well beyond our official capacity as "Soap makers"
The soap kitchen (TSK) continues to bring competition, better prices, quality products, and quality customer care to persons. We care about our customers and our employees and we seek to be an outstanding corporate citizen in the communities where we live and provide service. This corporate citizenship is evident in our charitable giving, as well as in the local sponsorships we’ve created as part of our community relations/ commercial partnership efforts.
Our company is dedicated to making a positive impact in our communities, and we are proud to support organizations every year through both volunteer efforts and donations. We look forward to being a good neighbor for many more years to come to this end we ensure our involvement in different projects/initiatives
1. The soap Kitchen was one of the majors contributors to the National Training Agency Handmade Soap Production Standard. This standard describes the skills, knowledge and technique required to manufacture soap and soap products.
2. We are a Member of Handcrafted Soap Maker's Association
3. Were part of the Roundtable for Sustainable Cocoa Economy SCE) 2 ; The Roundtable for a Sustainable Cocoa Economy (RSCE) is an initiative for dialogue and sustainability in the cocoa, coffee, palm oil, markets.
The meeting was a great success, attracting over 300 participants from 29 countries around the world, representing all sectors of the cocoa chain. We concluded with the attached “Trinidad and Tobago Declaration”, which outlines the framework for the way forward in achieving a sustainable cocoa economy, including Guidelines for Best Known Practices in the Cocoa Value Chain, the Modus Operandi and the establishment of a Cocoa Sustainability Fund.
4. Creator of TSK's Training Manual for a community handcrafted soap making project. This was created based on Leigh's expert experience in the soap making industry and knowing that crafting soap can in fact assist with poverty and enable rural communities to become agents for change, responsible for their own development. At TSK we believe by decreasing the proportion who live in poverty would make for a better country thereby creating a better tomorrow. We believe by teaching persons to improve the health of their community is the way forward as the most essential task is to ensure the satisfaction of basic human needs: shelter, clean air, safe drinking water, and adequate nutrition and health.
5. We were one of the chosen few companies that was asked on behalf on the National Secretariat for the Fifth Summit of the Americas 2009 to participate in the Summit village hosted at Hyatt Regency Hotel waterfront. Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, April 17 - 19, 2009. We were apart of the Outdoor Pavilion which was located on the quay side area just west of the Hyatt Regency Hotel stretching to the Femmes du Chalet (i.e. new Breakfast Shed).The outdoor pavilion was put together by designer Brian MacFarlane it was planned to encourage visitors to lounge, shop and be entertained by some of the country's foremost entertainers. The Summits of the Americas bought together the Heads of State and Government of the Western Hemisphere to discuss common concerns, seek solutions and develop a shared vision for their future development of the region, be it economic, social or political in nature.