# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C38vrwlvfPg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21565242-chapelboronews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-02-29T23:03:15.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

## Caption

For single mother Wya and her three school-age children, the home is a white 2007 Dodge minivan.

Wya goes by her ancestral Cherokee name. She and her kids have been sleeping in the van for about a month after they fled an abusive family situation in Fayetteville. Like many homeless people, they struggled to find a safe place to park where they wouldn’t get harassed or shooed away.

She had a blanket wrapped around her shoulders, and in the seat behind her, a pile of drawings on loose-leaf notebook paper formed a stack next to her youngest daughter, Zoey.

“I was parking at rest stops and I had this app where it showed me where I could park, that was for free, where they didn’t really mind it like at Cracker Barrel, or other places like that,” Wya said. “It was kinda dangerous because nobody really knows, but it was dangerous.”

So Wya and her kids made their way here, to what Greensboro is calling a “Safe Parking Site.” It’s a free downtown lot for people living in their cars, but unlike a rest stop, it has a security guard. It’s also directly behind the Interactive Resource Center where anyone can shower, do laundry and even meet with a caseworker.

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