INDIANAPOLIS — Following an RTV6 story, an organization gets resources to continue helping Indianapolis families pay for laundry.
READ | Laundry & More: A new approach to help east side families |
"Just imagine if you didn't have clean clothes this morning when you woke up," Abby Vesga, Laundry and More founder, said. "We're in an area where people don't have hope."
Vesga's quest is to ensure all families and children have clean clothes when they wake up, go to bed, or go to school.
Once a week, Vesga gives anyone who goes to Post Road Laundromat on the east side money to wash whatever they need. In our initial story, Laundry & More was serving 40 to 45 families each week. Currently, that number has grown to 60 families each week.
However, it came to a point where she was running out of resources and needed some help.
An employee at 'O'Neal Manufacturing Services' saw RTV6's story and answered the call to help.
"The great thing is by you guys coming out and talking about us, we have new organizations literally coming to us every week," Vesga said. "We have around 2400 loads of detergent."
O'Neal employees collected and donated enough supplies to do about 2,000 loads of laundry, which will last the organization for the next two and a half to three months.
Altogether the company donated 14 boxes of heavy duty trash bags, 40 boxes of fabric softener, 695 Loads of fabric softener and 2,404 loads of laundry soap.
Having been previously homeless, Abby knows the difference a simple pair of clean clothes can make.
"Living in the parking lots of the truck stops because I had nowhere else to go. When you're living like that, and your clothes being so bad, you just have to throw them away and go to Goodwill and get new clothes," Vesga said. "Not because you can really afford it but because you can't afford to do laundry. It's real. It's very, very, very real."
Laundry & More is now helping even more families since March. The founder says they are determined to continue this vital service for people.
Click here to learn how you can get involved with Laundry & More.
