“If I had clean clothes people would treat me like a human being.”

We are not able to meet for Laundry Love in person at this time.  If you need a voucher for laundry please contact Calvary Episcopal on South 4th Street 587-6011, or St. George's Episcopal on South 26th Street 776-2030.

The Laundry Love initiative consists of regular opportunities to help people who are struggling financially by assisting them with doing their laundry.

For those living below the poverty line, washing clothes presents both a logistical problem and a financial hardship.

Laundry Love partners with local laundromats in cleaning the clothes of those living in shelters, motels, cars, garages, and on the streets.  Laundry Love seeks to bring economic relief by giving the individual or family the option to redirect funds toward food, medical, gas or transportation costs as well as school supplies and other basic, everyday necessities.

Laundry Love operates in cities nationwide.  In central Louisville, a chapter of Laundry Love is coordinated by four Episcopal churches with the aid of three other area churches, including St. Thomas.  Members and friends from these churches meet at a local laundromat on a regular basis, giving people quarters for the washers and dryers, supplying detergent and fabric softener, loading and unloading machines and, if anyone desires, helping to fold clean laundry. 

Laundry Love is a “hand up” rather than a “hand out.”  Clean clothes, towels, and bed linens are a matter of pride, dignity, and self-confidence — all requisites for functioning optimally in the community, in school, and in the workplace.