Photo Gallery: New Nonprofit Tries To Shower Those In Need With Love

Arlington TX

10 January, 2022

6:36 PM

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By Cristian ArguetaSoto, Fort Worth Report January 10, 2022 A new nonprofit hit the streets Jan. 10 in its crowdfunded mobile shower trailer for the homeless. "It has been eye-opening," Gina Martin, the volunteer director at Fort Worth's Cloud Covered Streets team, said. "It has been a very passionate and bittersweet thing." Cloud Covered Streets' Fort Worth team members offered a Haircuts for the Homeless event, providing laundry, shower and grooming services to residents. Their trailer is equipped with three showers — two walk-in showers and a wheelchair-accessible shower — and a laundry room. The nonprofit was founded by Robert Thornton in Phoenix, Arizona in 2016 to aid the homeless population. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.