“Everything isn’t easy, it’s way harder than it was before the COVID-19 virus been announced.” “It’s actually been a real life struggle because of the COVID-19 virus going around,” she says. It's where the highest concentration of soliciting charges are logged in Columbus. Now, she's is back on Sullivant Avenue working the streets. The woman has been out of jail for about a month. They only released me because of COVID-19.” “Because of them taking me to jail, and I was sitting in there for two and a half weeks. “I had a probation violation and because of my probation violation they took me to jail,” explains one woman, whose name WOSU is not using. For more than an hour, there’s a constant stream of people. Several women gather outside the van, taking turns to approach for items like clothing and some donuts donated by a local bakery.Īs women receive help, they go and grab their friends nearby and bring them to the van. A red van with cartoon decal is parked along the side of a road in the Hilltop.
