St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Detroit MI basement was renovated so that Manna Community Meal Soup Kitchen homeless guests can shower and have clean clothes after eating at the soup kitchen. The homeless will have supportive employment by providing laundry service to the local Corktown restaurants, which will sustain the project.
Soup kitchen volunteers saw the hygiene needs of homeless guests and neighbors. Months may go by that guests have not showered, shaved or worn clean ... Read More
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Detroit MI basement was renovated so that Manna Community Meal Soup Kitchen homeless guests can shower and have clean clothes after eating at the soup kitchen. The homeless will have supportive employment by providing laundry service to the local Corktown restaurants, which will sustain the project.
Soup kitchen volunteers saw the hygiene needs of homeless guests and neighbors. Months may go by that guests have not showered, shaved or worn clean clothes. We love them anyway. On Christmas 2015/Jewish Mitzvah day, a Jewish family became interested. A small core group of Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Atheist neighbors asked a University to conduct a needs assessment by interviewing homeless guests. Did they want a place to shower and wash clothes? Response: “Yes, if the stalls were private and their clothes secure from theft.” Thus, the interfaith group, Corner Shower and Laundry, began.
48 homeless guests can shower every day, approximately 10-12,000 people will be served per year. Three industrial washing machines and dryers will launder approximately 18 loads daily. So, approximately 4,500 people per year will be able to wash their clothes. We will serve 15 homeless with supportive employment. The Corner Shower Laundry will support 10 local businesses by laundering their kitchen towels, uniforms and other supplies. In the midst of aggressive gentrification, the project will build relationships that transgress the usual boundaries of race, culture and economic class. These accounts will support CSL by providing income for the long-term project.
Where others saw only outcasts, CSL volunteers saw human beings worthy love. This project will provide immediate service to Detroit’s homeless community. In the midst of aggressive gentrification, the Corner Shower Laundry will offer homeless neighbors welcome, compassion, community, opportunity for employment, access to relationships that transgress boundaries of race, culture and economics and the means to gain a sense of dignity
Measurable objectives include:
1. Social and Health Support, Community Engagement, Supported Employment
1.1 Enable clients to utilize showers daily, totaling 960 showers per month x 12 months
1.2 Wash and dry 440 loads of laundry per month x 12 months
1.3 30% annual decrease in hospital visits due to hygiene issues as measurable by self reportly annual hospital visit survey
1.4 15 Manna Meal guests employed by Corner Shower Laundry.
1.5 10 local business laundry accounts annually.
Project Goal: To assist homeless guests to live healthier lives and ultimately find a path out of homelessness by learning to do laundry and job skills for local businesses.
Measurable objectives include:
2. Social and Health Support
2.1 Process Objective: Enable clients to utilize showers daily, totaling 960 showers per year.
2.2 Process Objective: Wash and dry 440 loads of laundry per month for twelve months a year.
2.3 Outcome Measurable Objective: 30% decrease in hospital visits due to hygiene issues in one year.
Come join us. Love is free. Shampoo, water, electricity cost, but together we can do be community of love and compassion.
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