Le Vital Corps Salon
#0065: Doniece Sandoval on transforming how we see and engage our unhoused neighbors, designing radical hospitality™ + the power of a shower
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 1:13:43
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Synopsis
The Lava Mae goal: to deliver hygiene and to reconnect people experiencing houselessness with their dignity.Doniece began Lava Mae after learning there were 16 shower stalls and about as many toilets for San Francisco's 7,500 houseless men, women, and children. Think about that math. It just does not work out. In this episode, she talks about how her idea became reality in such wonderful detail. In the five years since launching Lava Mae, 14,000 Californians have been served. Lava Mae is expanding by sharing an open source toolkit to respond to the more than 2,000 requests for help from communities as far away as Zimbabwe and as close as New York. In that same period of time, she has won countless awards and been recognized by CNN, Toyota and other organizations. Doniece, however, is most proud of the honor bestowed upon her by her 12-year-old daughter who calls her a homeless superhero. You know what? Her daughter is so right.In this episode, we discussed what Radical Hospitality™ is and transforming how com