Guerilla Cleaning by the Ugly Indian

Paul Rako of EDN AnaBlog writes: What really impresses me about these Indian engineers is that they don’t go off on a tangent and decide what other people want. They first learn all the “stakeholders” in the situation, the business dumping garbage, the residents in the area. In one case they cleaned up around the Bishop’s Girls School. There was a closed public restroom in the middle of the dump. First, they investigated and learned that a homeless woman was living in the restroom. Rather than report her and kick her out, the included her in the cleanup, and now she maintains and area since she now lives in a little park instead of an open dump. They took movies of the cute little girls having to walk over and around garbage on the way to school. They showed the videos to the local waste management department, and yeah, those bureaucrats have kids too, so they moved the collection point to a different location so the area would not be a garbage transfer point anymore. The Ugly Indian then enlisted the aid of the children’s van and bus drivers that wait outside the school. They made a waiting park and planted gardens, with the help of the Bishop School gardener. The area was a public urinal. Rather than try to change the fundamental nature of the human man, the Ugly Indian installed urinals and privacy partitions so the bus drivers had a place to relieve themselves.