Anaheim Union Excessive Faculty District college students provided free laundry – NBC Los Angeles

An Anaheim faculty district is teaming up native laundromats to offer credit for college kids in want to allow them to have entry to scrub garments.

The Anaheim Union Excessive Faculty District’s (AUHSD) board members unanimously permitted the partnership as a part of the district’s effort to help “the entire scholar,” it mentioned in a publish on-line. “The entire scholar” refers to supporting youngsters’s wants exterior their research by offering them with assets to allow them to concentrate on their teachers.

The most recent useful resource of focus for the district is clear clothes, which might be accessible because the district works with Superior Laundry and LaundryUp.

“They need to be certain that their college students’ primary wants are being met earlier than they go into the classroom,” mentioned Patrick Lee, who co-owns Superior Laundry.

In teaming up with AUHSD, Lee and his household enterprise are offering almost $9,000 value of vouches to college students and their households to allow them to entry free laundry companies at his two Anaheim laundry amenities.

“I simply assume with so many households juggling a number of jobs, rising prices, this program actually helps get rid of one space of stress for households,” Lee mentioned.

College students who’re in want of assist might be given a laundry card loaded with credit, laundry detergent and material softener.

“We simply need to be a great neighbor in the neighborhood and our enterprise mannequin is ‘do nicely by doing good,’” mentioned Howard Lee, who co-owns Superior Laundry. “Hopefully, we are able to do extra with different districts and so forth and so forth.”

The Lee household mentioned it’s additionally teaming up with faculty district officers to make free laundry drop-off and pick-up companies to accessible at some Anaheim excessive colleges.