Published: July 6, 2024
KALW, San Francisco’s NPR affiliate, recently profiled the ministry of laundry at San Francisco Friends Meeting. The piece begins:
Doing laundry can feel like a chore. But for some, the hurdles to washing their clothing are nearly insurmountable. For people who are living on the street or are very-low income, the cost of doing laundry can be prohibitive. It’s even harder if you have a disability, and live up three flights of stairs. This is the problem Zae Illo is working to solve. He calls it a ministry of laundry: a religious practice of meeting people on the street, helping them wash their clothes, and through that, listening to their stories.
Outside of San Francisco’s Quaker Meetinghouse in the Tenderloin, there is an unusual kind of worship taking place.
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from Zae Illo, San Francisco Friends Meeting (7/2/2024)