As per our environmental pledge, we spent about two hours cleaning up outside and inside my neighborhood.

I purchased some litter picker-upper-things, and although we didn’t clean every nook and cranny, we sometimes got deep into the bushes and thorns. Thanks to the claws, the cleanup was easier there.

One full bag and another about a third full. We saw a piss bottle too, so we removed that.

We got our first donation!

Donations aren’t all cash or money. Donations primarily come in the form of gifts and volunteer work. Thanks to my brother, we got our first form of “equipment” that doesn’t come from my own pocket. He donated three high-vis vests, which work great for when we are on busy streets/high-speed areas. Thank you, Mark!

Other ideas in the works:

While cleaning, we found:

This is an idea that I wanna incorporate eventually.

Perhaps not distributing books to the public, but utilizing publicly donated books and CSiNHA’s money and resources to transport them to schools/educational institutions in need worldwide.

“Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.”

In this same way, if you educate a man, you help everyone he comes by.