MISsIONS ON WHEELS
Our mission is to provide mobile showers, living quarters, and laundry trailers to non-profit organizations and local governments to bolster their response to disaster and community outreach at little or no cost to the organization or user.
we are veteran founded and operated!
we are veteran founded and operated!
CURRENT OPERATIONS
Hurricane milton
Hurricane Milton gave us a few things to think about as we moved trailers supporting #HurricaneIan (2022) long-term recovery teams out of the direct path of the surge and possible tornados. Fortunately, the plan was a good one, and we are currently assessing where those resources will serve the most good with our current partners in Florida.
We provide all of our services for little to no cost to non-profits. Is our fleet the solution to your humanitarian relief mission?
Click HERE to request a trailer to support your organization.
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Hurricane Helene
Oct 4: The next trailer is on the road to Henderson County. Several more shower and dorm trailers have been requested to continue supporting the recovery and clean-up efforts. Between volunteer and hired drivers, our estimated out-of-pocket expenses to deploy as many assets as possible are north of $35,000!
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Sept 29: As of Sunday afternoon, we have deployed one shower trailer to Suwanee County, FL, and we are preparing to deploy ShowerTrailer-5 and LaundryTrailer-2 to North Carolina. Operations are expected to last beyond 90 days, and we are tentatively planning to be in the Ashville, Waynesville, or Cherokee areas. Your support is vital to getting us there, setting and sustaining operations, and getting home. The cost of delivery averages between $4500 - $5000 per trailer, round trip. As part of our mission, we do not charge non-profit partner organizations utilizing the trailers when donations offset those delivery costs. Please consider providing shower and laundry support for impacted communities.
This will be our 4th disaster response in 2024, with the potential for another major storm that could impact Texas, Louisiana, and Florida already developing in the Gulf.
There are multiple ways to give: Zelle to donation@missionsonwheels.org, Venmo to @missions-on-wheels, Cash or check payable to Missions on Wheels, or click the link above to donate via PayPal.
Laundry Trailer 2
Funded in part by:
and Earth Breeze
July 8, 2024, Hurricane Beryl swept across SE Texas as a Cat 1 Hurricane. The "dirty" side of the storm left a wake of trees across power lines and hundreds of thousands without power.
We are providing showers at a shelter in Montgomery, and supporting the Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management with distribution of supplies at a POD location while waiting for power to be restored.
Once online, we will be back in Houston supporting mission teams.
Hurricane Beryl
HURRICANE IAN 2022-2024, sw fL
On October 2nd, 2022 we began deploying trailers in support of relief operations in SW and Central Florida following Hurricane Ian. Trailers have been deployed to Lee, Charlotte, and Polk Counties to support our non-profit partners as they send teams to help impacted homeowners.
January 1, 2023, we transitioned from "relief" to "long-term recovery" operations, which are still ongoing today in Charlotte and Lee Counties.
Five Dorm Trailers and one Shower Trailers are currently deployed in support of long-term recovery operations. Since 10/2/2022 we have saved our partners $2.4M in rental expenses, housed $210K worth of volunteer labor, and served over 2,000 volunteers.
Org. Support - 2023, Conroe, TX
August 5th, 2023 we deployed Shower Trailer-1 to Compassion United in Conroe, TX. Compassion United works with many of the homeless or near homeless in our home county. While they have the funding to build their second building, which will house the shower and laundry facilities, it is still about a year from completion. We are honored to be able to facilitate adding this piece to their mission a year ahead of schedule!
Org. Sup. - 2023, N. Fort Myers, Fl
October 2nd, 2023 we re-deployed Shower Trailer-5, fresh off Hurricane Idalaia operations, to North Fort Myers, Florida. ST-5 will be supporting a local church stepping out in faith to serve the estimated 2,500 homeless or near homeless residents in Northern Lee County, FL.
The church has a shower trailer on order, with an estimated delivery date of January, 2024. We are able, once again, to fill that void and allow this mission to stand up operations much earlier then expected.
2010 - 2023 DEPLOYMENT MAP
Every starred location is a community we've deployed trailers or equipment to support other non-profit organizations or local governments. Our little organization, with a roughly $275,000 annual budget, has saved other organizations about $6.5M since 2016. This is only possible with your financial support of our mission! Thank you!
Want to talk about impact?
how DOES $11,000,000 in
savings to our partners 2016 - 2023 look!
Savings on Trailer Rentals & Transportation: $6,251,229
Value of Volunteer Labor Housed: $5,071,906
Combined Savings to Our Partners & Impacted Communities: $11,323,135*
Communities Served: 70
States Supported: Texas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Iowa, Florida, North Carolina, Kentucky, Arizona
*All Deployments, including Disaster Response, Relief, Long-Term Recovery, Shelter Support, and Organization Support Operations.