Shoprite’s R5 Initiative The issue of hygiene poverty affects millions of South Africans. Approximately 14 million individuals – one in five people – face challenges in affording basic toiletries. To ...

Adults living in hygiene poverty are going without deodorant, toothpaste, or a hot shower to ensure their family can have a meal. News you can trust since 1873. Sign In. Subscribe.

This initiative, the Water Supply, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Poverty Diagnostic, encompasses 18 countries, ranging from fragile and conflict-affected states to middle-income countries. Over the ...

THE Shoprite Group, in partnership with Gift of the Givers have saved the drought-stricken community of Kokstad. This after they donated pallets of water and sent a soup kitchen to the Riverview­ ...

The initiative coincides with a poll of 500 adults experiencing hygiene poverty which found they are going without essentials like deodorant, toothpaste, and hot showers to ensure their families ...

The charity recently revealed that 4.2 million UK adults are living in hygiene poverty, and since 2022, the cost of living and inflation crises have pushed an additional 1.1m people into the ...