Derreck Kayongo

September 12-14, 2018

Buffalo, New York

Derreck Kayongo

Keynote Speaker

Greatness Lies Within The Unexpected

Derreck Kayongo and his family fled a civil war in Uganda and settled in the U.S. when he was just ten years old. Now a successful entrepreneur, Kayongo is a renowned expert in environmental sustainability and global health, as the founder of the Global Soap Project which takes donated, melted, purified and reprocessed hotel soap and redistributes it to vulnerable populations around the world.

He is also the CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, which capitalizes on the immersive management and leadership experience he has developed over the last 20 years working for Noble Peace Prize winning-organizations like Amnesty International and the American Friends Service Committee.

Currently, there are 5,500 hotels that are members of the Global Soap Project Recycling program in the United States alone and the list of participating countries has recently expanded to 90! Global Soap recently partnered with Clean the World, to make an even more expansive and effective organization.

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