Streetside Showers provides free mobile showers to unhoused people in Dallas and surrounding cities along with free clothes and hygiene products.
Trinidad Hernandez walks out from a mobile shower room after taking a shower in front of the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023.
Tim Smith, director of communications for The Stewpot, First Presbyterian Church’s ministry for unhoused people, said “it’s all about giving people dignity back. Who doesn’t feel better after a shower?”“We were initially seeing 35-40 people. We’re now at 80-100,” Smith said, adding that more people are also visiting the dining hall because of the heat.
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