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A van fitted with washing machines is cleaning homeless people's clothes in Athens.

Morgan Hill native Joseph Davis is no stranger to creating solutions for everyday problems. As a business leader and innovator, Joe Davis has been active in the technology field. With a string of patents to his name in data storage, wavelength optical switches, and Internet delivery technologies, Joe has been responsible for many millions of dollars in sales. He believes in giving back to the underprivileged as well. His philanthropic works in and around his home base of Morgan Hill, California have allowed the homeless population to regain their dignity.

A Mobile Showering and Laundry Facility for the Homeless in Gilroy, Morgan Hill and San Jose

Starting in the 1970s, Joe Davis and his wife Barbara have given their time, talents, and finances to organizations helping the underserved. He is a vocal advocate for the homeless population of Santa Clara County, California, and has undertaken the development of several projects to benefit the needs of homeless area residents.

Joe partnered with the Gilroy Compassion Center (GCC) and the San Jose State University Engineering Department on one of those projects. He has helped design and develop a mobile showering and laundry facility for use by homeless people, helping them to regain some of their dignity. The mobile facility is based on a towable trailer and features both laundry facilities as well as private showering areas. The facility is staffed by area volunteers. Homeless residents can use the facility for free, giving them a chance to have clean clothes and personal cleanliness, which may otherwise be hard to come by. Similar facilities have sprung up in communities across the country.

Advantages of a Mobile Showering and Laundry Facility

Homeless people face many challenges in their daily lives. Cleanliness is one of them. Showering facilities, such as the mobile one Joe Davis has co-developed with the GCC and San Jose State University, offers several advantages. These include:

Helping homeless residents regain some of their dignity

Reducing the time and frustration of searching for pay-only facilities in the area

Providing advantages in job- and housing-search endeavors – clean clothes and a fresh appearance help to land jobs in the area

Fostering a sense of normalcy in the homeless population

Helping to build a more compassionate community where the needs of everyone are met

Joe believes that everyone deserves a chance at success. By lending his engineering and technology talents to the needs of underserved residents of communities in California, he is helping them to restore aspects lost to them.

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For decades, mobile libraries have brought books into the lives of those who would otherwise go without. Meals on Wheels has helped feed those who cannot cook for themselves. What no one had thought of was creating a mobile laundry to wash the clothes of the homeless. That was until September 2014 when best mates Nic Marchesi and Lucas Patchett, both 21, decided to give it a go.

"We wanted to improve the hygiene standards of the homeless, so we came up with this crazy idea of building a free mobile laundry," Marchesi said last year.

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