Regina’s Operation Fresh Start offers access to clean clothing to the city’s most vulnerable people and families. The program completed six months in March and has helped over 300 families.

The program promotes healthcare for the vulnerable through clean laundry, which helps prevent diseases, promotes mental health and dignity, improves public health, and reduces communicable diseases, especially in encampments, shelters, and communal living. Operation Fresh Start offers access, equity, and economic opportunity for those who need help.

Operation Fresh Start is part of a project from Regina community organization Rally Around Homelessness to provide free laundry services in Queen City. The program was launched in September 2024 and has since provided vouchers to wash clothes at Seaspray Laundry, one of the partners.

The program helps people who are having misfortune. In addition to the city’s homeless population, even families who might be renting a space without a washer and dryer have benefitted from it. Heritage Community Association has been supporting Operation Fresh Start by printing vouchers and writing tax receipts.

The Circle Project is also offering hygiene products, thereby helping restore a sense of normalcy and pride for people using the vouchers. Operation Fresh Start is a part of the Rally Around Homelessness’s ‘I Gotch You’ campaign, which collected underwear donations for those in need.

Click here to donate to the partners online.

Source: CBC