“Before the wildfire, Sean Brown and Ben Henrie would park their colorful hygiene trailer outside Lahaina Baptist Church for four hours each week, providing shower and laundry facilities for dozens of homeless people.
After the historic town that had been their most popular location was destroyed by the rapidly spreading flames, they had to find a new spot to park the trailer.
‘So many of the people that we serve regularly call Lahaina town home. So now that there’s no Lahaina town, we were like, where do we go?’ Henrie said.
The outreach workers ended up in a large homeless camp south of Lahaina.
Brown and Henrie are part of Maui Rescue Mission, a Christian group that provides essential services like hygiene and phone charging to Maui’s homeless community.
They’re also now part of a multi-pronged effort to determine what happened to Lahaina’s homeless population, which had been one of the biggest on Maui, after the deadly Aug. 8 blaze.” READ FULL STORY HERE.
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