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These Guys Just DIY'd a Way to Do Laundry for the Homeless
When it comes to helping the homeless, providing food and shelter usually takes precedence. After all, thats what those living on the street need most, right? But there are lots of other basics that the homeless are without. While the rest of us get to put on clean clothes every morning, for example, those who are homeless and dont usually have access to laundry facilities cant.
Enter Lucas Patchett and Nicholas Marchesi, who are looking to change that for the homeless population in Brisbane, Australia. In July, the friends launched Orange Sky Laundry, Australias first mobile laundry service focused on providing homeless people with access to free washing and drying facilities. And theyre not using the term mobile loosely. The guys rigged up a van to hold two washers and dryers that can handle more than 44 pounds of laundry at a time usually the clothing (and blankets and bedding if they have any) of about 10 people via a process that takes about an hour.
https://www.yahoo.com/diy/these-guys-just-diyd-a-way-to-do-laundry-for-the-102561799490.html
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(45,251 posts)One or two homeless people used to try to use the public bathroom at the neighborhood health center to try to wash up at the sink, but the center banned them because too much water got on the floor and sink. Some homeless people are kids in school, a family living in a car. Although a mobile laundromat is great, I have seen some homeless people use some of their precious coins for the local laundromat to keep their few things clean. But where can they shower?
I am so very deeply ashamed sometimes. They are so deeply needy all the time.