On Easter Sunday, Lighter Loads ATX co-founder and COO James Ritchie will haul the nonprofit’s shower and laundry trailer down to one of the city’s largest homeless tent sites in Southeast Austin.
Once there, Lighter Loads, a local nonprofit, will distribute hundreds of prepared meals to people experiencing homelessness, provide nearly 100 showers and supply laundry services for those in need.
It is a continuation of the nonprofit’s mission, Ritchie said, that began in the fall of 2018. That mission still continues despite the looming threat of the coronavirus, which has infected 700 individuals in Travis and Williamson counties, according to the latest numbers.
“We’re not scared to go out and get our hands dirty,” Ritchie said. “We’re changing lives, one shower at a time.”
Lighter Loads is now providing shower and laundry services on weekends at three different locations on a rotating basis across Austin—St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church and Mosaic Church in Northwest Austin and Texas Oaks Baptist Church in South Austin.