Mission statement

Southside Cleanup is a black and brown youth-led initiative aiming to clean up the Southside of Chicago created by Kierra Wooden. The goal of Southside Cleanup is not to just simply clean the debris and trash off of our streets, but to benefit our communities with a plethora of resources. Southside Cleanup aims to feed our own communities in addition to providing necessities such as cleaning, and sanitation supplies as we are still in the midst of a global pandemic, and connecting with people on the Southside to figure out the next steps to elevate our communities. Kierra came up with the idea on Sunday evening of May 31st and didn’t know that it would attract this much attention overnight the first event took place on June 3rd, and it was a major success. Gaining social media success, she even caught the eye of the Obama Foundation who donated a bunch of cleaning supplies to the first cleanup. Kierra with the help of over a hundred volunteers was able to clean up, donate food, and cleaning supplies from Roseland all the way down to 35th.