The streets here are usually ankle deep in litter: empty cans, wrappers, packaging and so on. With a coating of mud and betelnut expectorant. Every so often the Seventh Day Adventist church has a litter blitz and dozens of people, dozens of women and children to be precise, spend the day picking it all up. And here is the result: a clean street. Within a week it will be back to normal I daresay.
We NZ volunteers joined in, wearing stout shoes and rubber gloves of course. The local children did it in bare feet and hands. Until I insisted she stop, one child cheerfully slurped the leftover contents of each can she picked up.
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