Nonprofits offer showers, laundry to people in need

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) — The Albany Rescue Mission has teamed up with Unleashed Ministries to offer showers and laundry services to people in need.“Showering is something we all really take for granted. Sometimes the people that come, they have been weeks, if not months, without a hot shower,” said Amanda Griffin with Unleashed Ministries.How the partnership startedKelly Smith of the Albany Rescue Mission wanted to bring the service to the community.

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Smith reached out to Griffin, whose organization was already providing showers in Tifton by renting out a hotel room every Friday.“She knows the ins and outs. So I just asked her if she would be willing to start that here. And she was on board. She was 100% ready to get it started. And it’s taken us some months to get it all together and get our schedules coincided.

But all in all, this is what’s come of it,” Smith said.What people receivedPeople who needed a shower also were given toiletries, new clothes, and shoes. Others were able to wash t