I ❤️ THY HOOD

My whole life I grew up in a neighbor where it was cool to throw your trash on the ground. Where there was no one telling us to respect the area we call home. In a city where the budget in certain sections are forgotten and left to fend for themselves while the downtown area is so clean, it’s hard to even find a candy rapper on the sidewalk. To simply put it, my city is not helping the  litter problem in my section and I get it. The people that are making the issue are people like me who rather throw something out of the window instead of waiting until we can throw it into a trash can.  But we are humans and we mimic our environment. 

But I have found a simple solution that will solve a big problem.  And this was all discovered when a neighbor of mine put one trash can on a block that didn’t have one on it already. He wrote “street trash” on it. One day I saw this can empty and the next day, half full. By the end of the week, trash was piled to the brim!! And I realized why the trash can was there. 

We mimic what what we see. If I walked by that block and saw a pile of trash and I just finished a soda, guess what I would probably do... but if I see a can full of trash, 99% of the time I will throw that same bottle in the can.  If that can was not there, most likely all those bottles and fast food bags would have been laying in the street, in yards, in playgrounds, in the sewers. The messed up part is that’s what the next block looks like. Simple because there’s no trash can on it.... And we have the power to change that. 

A 44gal trash can cost $50. This page was made to raise enough money to buy 10 cans so that 10 blocks can have a place to put their “street trash”.....*UPDATE WE HAVE RAISED $690 IN JUST 24 HOURS!!! SO I GUESS I WAS AIMING TOO LOW SO I CHANGED THE GOAL  IN EFFORTS TO RAISE $1,000 SO THAT WE CAN DOUBLE THE AMOUNT OF CANS WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN ABLE TO ACHEIVE!! THY HOOD THANKS YOU ALL FOR THE LOVE AND SUPPORT! Because of commercial businesses, fast food eateries, foot traffic, and commuters in the community, we have to do our best to stop pollution in the inner city. We love your city. So let’s act like it. A simple $1 can go a long way. We owe it to ourselves. We owe it to our hood. Thank you for listening and thank you for your donations! God bless you!