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The Cop That Quit To Help People On The Streets

Wade Milyard heard a voice “out of nowhere” while responding to a domestic dispute at a homeless camp near Frederick, Maryland, and when the former canine officer asked the couple about their laundry as the voice instructed, they told him they typically washed their clothes in a nearby creek, an answer that changed the course of his life forever. The 45-year-old never forgot that response or his call to service, pooling multiple donations with his own money to create Fresh Step Laundry, a full-service laundromat on wheels with a mission to help restore dignity to the unhoused community by providing free, accessible, and hygienic laundry services. Since retiring from the Frederick Police Department in January, Milyard has been traveling around his Maryland city near Washington D.C., washing more than 2,000 pounds of laundry in recent weeks alone while never charging a single cent, though his work yields substantial dividends in human dignity and pride.

Chris Washington, one of the people Milyard serves, explained that when you’re clean you just feel better and feel a little bit more proud of yourself, perfectly capturing the mission that drives the retired officer forward every day. Milyard operates on a set schedule so people can meet him to take advantage of his laundry service, believing that if having clean clothes can help someone just a little bit and give them a boost, then his mission is fulfilled. The former cop’s next goal involves adding a second vehicle to double the number of people he can serve, ensuring that the mission which started with a mysterious voice from out of nowhere keeps spinning forward with even more impact in the next cycle. What began as a simple question during a police call has transformed into a prayer-fulfilling future where dignity is restored one clean load of laundry at a time, proving that sometimes the most powerful interventions come from listening to voices that call us toward compassionate action.

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