BEAUTIFUL BIRDS. "It makes me happy to see them. Beautiful. I enjoy them. They don’t get up in the morning, three o’clock in the morning. They don’t work hard like us, you know?" A.T.

IT'S GOOD TO SEE. "I like vacuum, to do it. It’s easy. It cleans the floor for you, this makes me happy. Otherwise, this is scary in the back. It’s getting warm sometimes when you do it a lot, that’s scary. But it’s your job." A.T.

LOOKS BEAUTIFUL. "Yummy and healthy. Because I was fasting… [my kids] did for me a veggie. Mushrooms and red pepper, green pepper… and onion. I’m so happy." A.T.

LOOKS GOOD GARDEN. "Organic, it’s good for your health. When you do it, it makes you happy. It’s more work, but it makes you happy. Tomatoes and zucchini at my house." A.T.

LOOKS GOOD GARDEN. "Organic, it’s good for your health. When you do it, it makes you happy. It’s more work, but it makes you happy. Tomatoes and zucchini at my house." A.T.

WINDOW DOOR. "Squeezer. She clean the window door. Because that's our job. I like it, to clean. I'm very happy. That's my job." M.D.

T3 MACHINE. "Eight or so years ago, we don’t have this… we use mop, wet mop. Wet mop is very hard. We use this one, T3 machine. I like it. Big help for me." M.D.

FRONT OF PARKING. "I like to flower. Make me happy to see. It's at our house at the parking." M.D.

MARY. "This is Mary. I like it. If you pray to sleep, I good. And I start to eat something, breakfast or lunch, I pray for my food to help for my health." M.D.

EXERCISING. "I have half hour I have to run like this. And then my body is relaxed. I wish everybody did like that. That’s why for my body, I feel when I’m done, I feel relaxed. Especially for custodians, it’s good." R.M.

BLOWER. "[Co-worker's name] is hard worker. She blowing outside. Because when you blow outside, the inside keep clean. Safe for inside, that’s why I like it." R.M.

SOLAR. "I’m not paying too much. It’s good for my health… because I don’t have to stress to pay the bills. In this time, it’s important. Wish everybody use like that." R.M.

PARKING. "I like this area. The kiddos and some people just walking around, and playing. When I have time I walking around to there. My brain feeling fresh, and my body I’m feeling easy." R.M.

COMMUNICATION. "We working together in one room. Whatever I cannot do it with a machine, she will do it with a scrub. It’s not only by the machine… we’re working with the emotional, with our body. How much energy we do that one? You know, after a while, we’re getting old because our body is working hard too. Every custodian works hard outside and inside." E.T.

CUSTODIAN IS THE EYES AND THE EARS OF UW. "This is a ceiling, it’s leaking. Then if I don’t report it, if I don’t do nothing, it’s gonna be worse. Without custodian, they cannot see this one." E.T.

WHEN WE SEE A GOOD THING ALWAYS, YOU HOPE ALWAYS. "I love to see always the flowers. All my kids they bring, Friday or Sunday. When it’s open the flowers makes me remember my kids. How they grow up. How they doing. But life is, we are a flower for life. We grow, and then gone." E.T.

WE GOT TO REMEMBER WHERE WE COME FROM. "For special occasions we wear this. Everybody has the same." E.T.

COOKING. "I don't have a choice to go to kitchen and cook for them. Everybody they wait for me, 'Mom, we're hungry.' My grandkids they come visit, 'Grandma, where are they? Our food?'" W.T.

SMALL TABLE FOR THE COFFEE. "The weekend Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I sit there, I make coffee. My husband, he sit next to me. Even my friends sit next to me. You know talking each other... just enjoy life. Enjoy. That’s coffee. Coffee is health! You know, we have energy." W.T.

MOSOB. This picture, if you have special day, like wedding, engagement, for the wedding people, woman and man. Even the groom. We have too many like that, but this picture for only men. The group men, women, then two group. Bride and groom. Okay, for people we have big plate. And then injera. And then different soup. Different soup." W.T.

CLEANING THE FLOOR. "It’s hard work because you never know about the chemical. How much damage it’s gonna make us and our health, we don’t know. But that one is our job. 5% have something to say. It mean after 20 years how many percentage do I have in my body?" Photography by W.T. Quote by E.T.