Shower the People is a community-based mobile shower program that offers showers to homeless people in San Luis Obispo county.

We give people with the greatest need the opportunity to clean themselves with privacy and dignity on a regular basis. By helping our guests satisfy this basic human need of cleanliness we contribute to their confidence, stability, and self esteem.

Our vision for a mobile shower for the homeless began in 2016 when a group from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in San Luis Obispo attended a conference in Santa Barbara. Showers of Blessing had their mobile shower unit on site for all to view. Volunteers for their program spoke to us about their successful shower program that provides showers to the homeless in Santa Barbara County. We agreed that a mobile shower program was needed for homeless people in San Luis Obispo County too.

From that day forward a committed group of volunteers has planned and built a mobile shower program for San Luis Obispo County. Shower the People became a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in May of 2017.

In June of 2018 we ordered our three-unit mobile shower using a generous grant from Presbyterian Women USA. We opened our shower doors to homeless people in September 2018.

Our mission is to provide homeless people in our community with access to a hot shower. Our program is entirely supported by grants and donations from (interfaith) churches, organizations, and individual donors in our community. Our program is run by volunteers like you.

We continue to look for additional sites for the shower to operate. Typically we offer showers for three hours at each site. Contact us if you would like to join our all-volunteer team, or if you know of sites where we could offer our mobile shower services to homeless people.