[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 33 (Friday, February 23, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E174-E175]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HONORING BRIANA DANIEL AS A DISTINGUISHED LEADER IN CENTRAL FLORIDA FOR 
                          BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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                            HON. DARREN SOTO

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, February 23, 2024

  Mr. SOTO. Mr. Speaker, during a run in Orlando in 2013, Briana Daniel 
encountered the stark reality of homelessness. Motivated to help but 
inexperienced in addressing this issue, she chose to immerse herself by 
living among the Downtown Orlando homeless community for over a month.
  Through firsthand experience and conversations with them, she 
discovered their profound need for dignity through cleanliness. This 
insight led her to establish Street Team Movement Inc., an organization 
dedicated to offering hygiene services to the homeless community.
  ``It's hard to have dignity or feel like you have value when you have 
nowhere to wash and no way to clean your clothes or yourself,'' said 
Daniel.
  Street Team Movement Inc. provides laundry services to the unhoused 
and hygiene items distributed through their hygiene vending machines. 
The machines are accessible for free to the homeless through their 
proprietary ``Hope Cards,'' which are special access cards allowing the 
population a limited number of transactions per week.
  ``We believe in compassionate assistance, not just handouts. The 
`Hope Card' allows us to help without enabling dependency. We provide 
individuals the means to access items, and services while preventing 
any misuse,'' said Daniel.
  In 2021, Street Team Movement launched a special program specifically 
for homeless women called Project Lioness. The program aims to bridge 
the hygiene gap for unhoused

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women by connecting them to critical feminine hygiene kits that will 
carry them through their monthly cycle. To date, Project Lioness has 
distributed over 1,000 hygiene kits stocked with panty liners, feminine 
napkins, tampons, and wipes. To date, Street Team Movement has washed 
over 30,000 loads of laundry, provided over 500 haircuts, and has given 
out over one million hygiene items. Since launching the hygiene vending 
machines in 2020, Street Team Movement has given out over 5,000 hygiene 
kits in five States.
  On February 22, 2024, Briana Daniel was honored as a distinguished 
leader in Central Florida for Black History Month.

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