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Lava Mae founder Doniece Sandoval, who has a background in marketing, community relations, and the arts, was eager to do something about the homelessness she saw every day in San Francisco. She began ...

With a mission of taking “radical hospitality” to the street, San Francisco–based Lava Mae was founded by Doniece Sandoval in 2014. A lightbulb went off after Sandoval encountered a homeless woman ...

Every Wednesday afternoon, a silver trailer pulls up in front of a social service organization in Plano, Texas, and begins offering free showers to local homeless people. On Fridays, it moves to a ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) -- Michael Thornton may have lost his home, but he never lost his self-esteem. The now housed San Francisco resident made staying clean a top priority even when he was living on ...

Doniece Sandoval, 57, and her family used to live in a diverse, middle-class neighborhood in San Francisco. But after the Great Recession, gentrification struck, turning their community into an ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Lava Mae operates a trailer, which provides curbside shower and restroom service just outside of City Hall to the homeless every Friday for roughly six hours. "It's real ...

It started with a simple idea: that dignity and hygiene are inextricably linked. Doniece Sandoval was convinced homeless people deserve both, so ideas turned to action. Lava Mae has upgraded from its ...

For a sizable number of Los Angeles’ homeless people, opportunities to maintain a personal hygiene schedule can be tricky. That’s where Lava Mae comes in. The San Francisco–based mobile shower and ...

There are a multitude of modern conveniences that we now take for granted, but perhaps foremost among them is our access to water and sanitation. For the homeless population, that convenience -- the ...