Carlos Cabrera was born and raised in South Central L.A. He is known in the community and on social media as South Central Cleanup. For the past months, he has organized cleanups throughout the neighborhood, picking up everything from a single item left on a curb to massive, multi-story piles of trash.
“If you’re from South Central, you are often told to work your hardest to get out of the hood, to get out of the slums. I never understood that. We are told to leave our home instead of trying to make it better,” he told CALÓ News when asked what inspired him to begin picking up waste. “The energy of an area after a cleanup changes completely.”
He began his cleaning efforts in June of this year, after he got a puppy and began walking him…