Mobile Laundry Vans Making a Social Impact

[mattl]

 

Australian team brings laundry services to homeless and remote areas along with showers. Interesting article about adapting equipment and providing a service. I'm not aware of anything like this in the US. For the remote areas they designed a diesel/electric dryer.

The Long-Distance Mobile Laundry Vans Making a Social Impact - Core77

#vanlife is about fitting domestic furniture and appliances into a van, providing a home on the road. An Australian nonprofit called Orange Sky has turned this model on its side, fitting unexpected equipment into vans to provide services to those who don't have a home. In 2014 Nic Marchesi

www.core77.com

 

[appnut]

There is tides loads of hope truck that goes to areas after disasters and communities of needs and can do up to 300 loads of laundry A-day.

In fact, the program is alerady going/one to the areas in Kentucky that have had all the flooding.

 

[whatsername]

There are a few in the US

The Laundry Truck LA

The Laundry Truck LA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides free mobile laundry services to people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles. Fundraising efforts are led by DOLAN Group, Inc. All donations are tax-deductible.

www.thelaundrytruckla.com

 

[whatsername]

Another

Above was LA here’s one in Charlotte

A year after launching a mobile shower and laundry services for the homeless, Hope Vibes looks to expand

The five-year-old nonprofit is also building an innovation hub and distribution center in Harrisburg.

qcitymetro.com

 

[bradfordwhite]

Add in mobile food pantries, book mobiles (librarys), meals-on-wheels, mobile vets, mobile accountants,...

these people don't need to be limited to certain neighborhoods.