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One small measure to aid people living on the streets...
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How to shower the people with a wave of inspiration
Heather Knight
Updated 2:11 pm, Sunday, July 13, 2014
...So credit Doniece Sandoval with not only having a creative and significant idea, but also turning it into reality - and helping it take off in cities around the world.
We told you last fall that the 52-year-old public relations executive and Western Addition resident had been moved after passing a filthy homeless woman who was crying and saying she'd never be clean. After learning that the city had just 16 showers for its thousands of homeless people, Sandoval had the unlikely idea of turning decommissioned Muni buses into mobile shower stalls.
Last fall, that was about as far as she'd gotten.
But a couple of weeks ago, she held a test run on Capp Street in the Mission and invited us to check it out. And there it was: a Muni bus painted bright blue with "One Shower at a Time" written on the outside and a long hose stretching from the bus to the closest fire hydrant to get water....
djean111
(14,255 posts)I love the idea of turning buses into all sorts of things - health care, dentists, etc.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)PDJane
(10,103 posts)And a real act of compassion made manifest.