Flowing with Blessings is a nonprofit that provides free, hot showers to Atlanta's unhoused population. Founder Nicky Crawford aims to restore hygiene, dignity and hope to the disadvantaged with his mobile shower units.

Crawford saw a need to expand into mobile laundry services. To design and build his Mobile Laundry Bus, Crawford collaborated with the Industrial Design department at Georgia Tech. ID juniors and seniors Zaria Hardnett, David Hounyo, Lily Liang, Claudia Ross, and Anushka Vaidya worked on the project.

"Using their design and engineering skills, the team was involved in every step of the process, from brainstorming and sketching concepts to developing 3D models and ensuring the final design was practical and user-centered. Since the solution had to be mobile, and there was no guarantee of clean water at some locations, the students had to determine how to add large tanks of clean water. They thought through how the workflow for the helpers could work and then designed the layout of the washers and dryers for an effective operation."

Sadly that's all the visual documentation I could find, but you can get a look at the bus, and hear more about Crawford's mission, in the news clip below.

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