“No one does it alone,” said Rehan Staton. “Just keep paying it forward.”
He enlisted the help of his former employer, Bates Trucking & Trash Removal of Bladensburg, Maryland.
“I know what it feels like to be in a position where people would rather act like you don’t exist,” Bates, 31, told the Washington Post. “I’ve never seen something come full circle like this,” explained Staton. “The same sanitation company that changed my life, I came back to them, and they said, ‘We’ll be right there with you.’”such as actor Tyler Perry, knows it takes a village.Staton was previously employed as a sanitation worker to save up for school.
“The thing about Rehan and I, is we don’t come from privilege, and we’ve had these thankless jobs, and because of that, we see in a way that a lot of people don’t,” explained Anderson. “I think people try the best that they can, but they don’t really know really where to begin.”
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