Caesars Windsor has put together another effort to help those in the community who are less fortunate.
Employees volunteered their time to create 1,500 hygiene kits as part of the casino resort's Caesars Windsor Cares initiative. The process involves collecting recycled soaps and toiletries, and putting them in special kits which are delivered to area shelters and help agencies.
Jhoan Baluyot, manager of public relations and communications at Caesars Windsor, says the kits include products from Clean the World, a non-profit organization working with Caesars on its recycling program.
"This organization actually takes products that are used shampoos and toiletries from hotel rooms across North America," says Baluyot. "What they do is sanitize it and reuse it to make new soap."
In addition to soap, the kits also contain a razor and toothbrush. Baluyot says volunteers produced more kits for this project than last year.
"We did about a thousand," says Baluyot. "So the need is there and so we increased it again this year. We kind of had a production line going and our employees took one day and we put all of the kits together, and they put an inspirational note handwritten by our employees in each of the kits."
The volunteers delivered the kits Thursday morning to the Salvation Army of Windsor-Essex, one of three area groups receiving them this year. The others are the Welcome Centre Shelter for Women and the Windsor Residence for Young Men.
Since Caesars Windsor opened in 1994, the Caesars Windsor Cares initiative has donated over $13-million in funding and in-kind resources to support various non-profits in Windsor-Essex. One of their major events yearly is Concerts for a Cure, which donates $1 for every ticket sold to a Colosseum at Caesars Windsor show during October and November to area groups promoting cancer awareness.
