Good deeds are not just about what someone does, but also about how they do it. For the last 15 years, Current Initiative’s Laundry Project has been dealing soap—to help neighbors with the chore of doing laundry—and hope via its volunteers and hands-on community outreach.
The concept is simple. Folks show up to a local laundromat, use the free soap and take quarters from volunteers who help keep that day’s project going.
On Saturday, July 15, Laundry Project will be in two locations— Clothesline in St. Pete, Super Matt in Sarasota—to wash clothes with the community. Next weekend, Tampa’s Bay Laundromat will be activated. More information is available via laundrybycurrent.org.
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When he founded Engage Current a decade-and-a-half-ago, Jason Sowell wanted to do two things: teach college students about the global injustice and current affairs of our world, and make a difference in Tampa. Today, Laundry Project has expanded into 144 laundromats in 60 different cities across 18 states, where volunteers and more than 25,000 families have washed 2.5 million pounds of laundry (1,293 tons).
Over the last 15 years, Engage has expanded to help families renovate their homes (it’s done six large scale projects to date) and also helped parents bring home gifts to their kids as part of the affordable Christmas project.
To make the anniversary, Sowell is asking folks to get out and volunteer at an Engage project and also consider joining the 15-year challenge where community members commit to donating $15 month (or $15,000 a month if you got it, amirite) so that Current can continue to do the simple work it’s done.
