Project Bubbles: A laundry service for the homeless loses its home

[mia]

Great idea - hope they find another location. I wonder if other cities have programs such as this one.


http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/city-hall/laptop-city-hall-a-laundry-service-for-the-homeless-loses/article_7b0c9cfa-31a4-11e1-8efc-0019bb2963f4.html

An unusual program to help homeless people do their wash is being booted from the Madison laundromat where it has been operating for the past six months.

Around 50 homeless people a month have been taking the bus to Laundry Land at 1131 N. Sherman Ave., where they get free detergent, coins for the machines and a temporary loan of clean clothes, since some people walk in with only the clothes on their backs, says Donna Asif, an advocate for the homeless.

She set up Project Bubbles to be a companion to a service providing showers for the homeless she established in the basement of the First United Methodist church downtown in 2007. Keeping clean is no little thing even for people who lack big things like food and shelter, she says. She has seen grown men bury their heads in their towels and cry after having their first shower in days and changing into a freshly laundered set of clothes.

Asif says she is "terribly disappointed" that management at Laundry Land is ending the program there Thursday, Dec. 29, but grateful they gave it a chance....

[RKP5637]

1. This can be such a brutal country to many.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. What a beautiful thing, the laundry. This kind of thing needs to be

available to the homeless everywhere.

In other countries, they at least permit shantytowns. Here? Here they only allow the homeless to roam, or disappear into sewers, infested areas, and hide.

Very F'd up.

[RKP5637]

3. It's horrible, absolutely horrible, they are pushed under the rug and MSM blasts along

in la la America like everything is absolutely perfect. Meanwhile, about 50% of the country lives in or near poverty. This is the land of denial.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. I know. I hate the mass media. nt

[handmade34]

4. that is just so sad

but wonderful that it existed for some time...

[sufrommich]

6. How sad. I swear if I won the lottery I'd

give generously to every Donna Asif out there.

[targetpractice]

7. I had the same thought...

If I had the money, I'd open a laundry for the homeless... Donna Asif's idea is such a wonderful meaningful way to help.

[RainDog]

8. k&r n/t