From homeless to helping: Robert Ford’s Shower Bus offers some of Akron’s most vulnerable residents a fresh start

The Shower Bus was first conceptualized in March of 2022, outside of Innes Community Learning Center. There, Robert Ford, along with other organizers, held a pop-up food pantry every third Saturday of the month.

One humid weekend, a woman left her van across the street on East Avenue with her kids inside. She wanted food.

She wanted to get clean…

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