There was a new cleaner in MiB’s project office. He was replacing the previous cleaner in the office. Basically, MiB receives the support of an outsourcing service provider who recruits cleaners in the MiB Office along with other offices of BRAC University.

On his first day, as per as the instruction, the new cleaner waited till the end of the office hour to mop (swipe) the office floor. The project manager, Hasib, was the last person leaving the office on that day. Before leaving, he asked the new cleaner about his whereabouts. The new cleaner said that he used to work in a garment factory at Narayanganj. He learned there how to use overlock machine for sewing. Recently, he had to leave the job for some type of security reason that he does not want to share. After leaving the job, he moved to Dhaka with a belief that he could find a new job in a garment factory in Dhaka. However, since he did not know anyone in Dhaka, it had been difficult for him to find a garments worker job. Somehow, he was able to find a job in the cleaning services and now he is in MiB’s office. Hearing his story, Hasib took him to his room and opened the live MiB Map in his laptop. Hasib looked into the factory concentered areas in Mirpur and named some of the roads of Mirpur to the new cleaner. His suggestion was that the cleaner could just go to these roads, he would find the gates of some of the factories, and he should just tell the gatekeeper that he is looking for a job in the factory having experiences on using overlock machines. The new cleaner nodded and went to swipe the office floor.