Lava Mae is a San Francisco–based nonprofit that delivers mobile showers and other critical services to the street, where people moving through homelessness need them most.
Founded by Doniece Sandoval in 2013, we began by converting public transportation buses into showers and toilets on wheels to deliver hygiene to our neighbors moving through homelessness.
We are a social services organization, but our heart is in the hospitality business. Lava Mae calls the people we serve our guests, we treat them with respect and work hard to make sure they leave feeling better than when they arrived.