DALLAS — Power couple Lisa Aschenberg and Eric Love have made it their mission to help those living on the streets in North Texas. 

What You Need To Know

  • Couple founded Project Love Love to help those experiencing homelessness

  • They drive a bus to encampments and donate items

  • They are currently accepting blankets, coats and winter gear to give away before it starts to get cold

They’ve been together for 10 years, married for seven, and founded a homeless outreach together called Project Love Love. The project is a Love Your City nonprofit outreach program dedicated to serving those experiencing homelessness in Tarrant County and beyond. Their goal is to help the more than 500 people living in tents, under bridges, and makeshift shelters.

Last year the couple purchased a retired school bus and turned it into the Love Love Bus. The bus is how they transport the items they donate along with any volunteers joining them for the day. It’s hard to miss because it's boldly decorated with a '60s flower power vibe, and it’s outfitted with custom shelves to organize donation items and to keep their coolers from sliding around while driving.  

On any given weekend you can find the Love Love Bus parked near a homeless encampment where Aschenberg and Love, along with their family and friends, will set up their operation. They load the bus with clothes, coats, blankets, toiletries and other basic-need items to give to those living on the streets. Over the years the project has received an outpouring of support in the form of donations. 

“I’ll put a blast out on our social media saying these are the items we really need right now,” said Aschenberg. 

Wherever they park the bus, they set up multiple tables covered in items to give away.

“I like to say everything goes quick because it typically does, but things of hard need. You see people with no shoes. That’s tough, that’s real real tough. It makes me really sad to see that,” said Eric.  

Will Sanders is one of the people who helped Aschenberg and Love load the items off the bus. He lives in a tent with his wife. 

“It actually helps out a lot,” said Sanders. “It’s very, very blessed for them to come out for us and help the community because the city might actually be trying to push us out.” 

Sanders and his wife met while homeless. They share a tent with their cat, Midnight, and they love each other very much. They met earlier this year and got married soon after. Originally from California, Sanders is nervous for his first winter in North Texas. He said he’s not looking forward to living in a tent when temperatures start to drop. 

“We just want to do our part to help those in need. No one deserves to live like this,” said Aschenberg. 

Aschenberg and Love are gearing up for the cold weather and are now accepting blankets, coats and winter gear donations to give away before it starts to get cold. 

When asked when they realized they loved each other they responded like lovestruck teenagers talking about a crush.

“The thing that drew me to him is his generosity and his heart for other people,” said Aschenberg while driving the bus, hair blowing in the wind. “I was like, that’s the kind of person you marry, you know? Someone with a good heart.” 

“The great thing about my wife and my relationship is, not that I had to be fixed, but she sure polished a lot of areas that made me a really, really, great person,” said Love, as he wiped off the sweat from his forehead.  

To learn more about Love Love and its mission you can find it on Facebook, Instagram and its website.