What Ann learned from the Custodian Project

Ann Amir is a beautiful girl who loves fashion and makeup and hair. She is a Copt with African roots in the Sudan.  Her words on this project are some of the most touching and poignant I have heard. Clearly, her soul is as beautiful as her face.

Ann Amir is in the back row, third from the left, with her hand to her chin.

The whole project aimed at experiencing the life of the custodians, and how they do their work every day. Actually, I thought of it more than that. I really liked to do their job for one day, or rather for couple of hour. I found that they are doing so much work even more than any other person who works in a higher level of jobs. Furthermore, they were not born to be custodians. I meet one of them who used to work in a law firm, but she moved to be a custodian for a higher salary. Perhaps not all of them have the same situation, but still, if they found another job with a good salary, they would be anything else other than custodians. 

Ann tries to clean the whiteboard in a classroom. It is not as easy as it looks.

Ann and Carrie seem to be enjoying their grueling assignment.

 

After doing this project, I feel like I want to apply it with everyone I meet every day. I would like to apply it with my doorman and see how my neighbors are dealing with him. I would like to apply it with the public bus or taxi driver and check how he thinks and how people act towards him. I would like to apply it with the office boy at my work. I guess if I could do this, I will show people surrounding them that these taxi drivers, doorman, or office boy, are people whom have their own feelings. Also, may be, I will be able to deliver a message that anyone of us might be in their shoes if we have the same situation as they do. 

Ann is third from the right front row.

Ann is third from the left, front row.

 Thank you Ann, for your heartfelt and thoughtful reflections. WMB