After learning about a lack of places for homeless people to shower, a Sauk Rapids couple will begin running a mobile shower unit in June 2019. Nancy Dyson and Jason Jaques first brainstormed locations where homeless people could access showers after someone asked if they knew of places to go. "We just looked at each other like, 'I don't (know),'" Dyson said. "It was heartbreaking." The pair started a "quest" to find options in the area, but they found limited places would work, Jaques said. "We can do better than that," Dyson said. "We have to do better than that." Jaques and Dyson began working on the idea of a self-contained unit, built in a small passenger van, a couple years ago. Known as Shower the People, it will be operated under the couple's nonprofit, Neighbors to Friends. Jaques and Dyson plan to take the truck to people who need it, providing access to a shower as well as meals and time to hang out. https://www.gofundme.com/f/7nfu4c-shower-the-people