Puyallup-based nonprofit The Skoolie Foundation plans to set up mobile shelters, a thrift store, food truck and shower bus at a new women’s empowerment campus in Thurston County, according to its founder Brandon Simmons.
The campus will offer resources to those in need at stations operating out of “skoolies,” a knickname for retired school buses.
Though Skoolie’s work in Thurston County is only in the beginning stages, the nonprofit already is providing free showers at Union Gospel Mission each Thursday from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m…