Some community leaders criticise the campaign because they say there is little point picking up rubbish when Rocinha does not even have the basic sanitation needed to improve the quality of life of the residents.
He is now working for World Vision, alongside many other engineers, to provide basic water and sanitation needs for those displaced by the conflict.
Gap analysis from the Shelter, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), CCCM Clusters and the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reveals the magnitude of the task ahead to meet basic water and sanitation needs of transitional shelter and spontaneous camp residents.
With each disaster these reports make it sound like the need for water, food and basic sanitation and health supplies are unique to the immediate crisis.
Globally, as part of the company's commitment to sustainable living, the Unilever Foundation has partnered with UNICEF to help hundreds of thousands of people in need, gain improved access to basic sanitation.
Thus there is the need to demonstrate not only the basic sanitation capabilities of these systems, but also the degree to which they are valued by participating households.
"While the world is on track to meet its safe water targets, progress on basic sanitation, in terms of the number of people who need to gain access to sanitation facilities each year for the first time, needs to accelerate by at least 58 per cent between now and 2015 to meet the Millennium target," said UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman.
To ensure that 65 per cent of East Asia and the Pacific's population has access to basic sanitation (the 2015 target), some 373 million more people will need household facilities such as pour flush latrines, pit latrines with slab or composting toilets.
For example, to determine vulnerability to epidemics, data need to be available on housing, living conditions, basic sanitation, and history of outbreaks (34).
The annual investment needed in East Asia to achieve universal access to both safe water supply and basic sanitation by 2015 is estimated at around $8 billion – barely 20% of the estimated economic losses incurred through inaction.
Since then, she has been advocating federal legislation, a Passengers' Bill of Rights, specifying when airlines need to allow passengers to get off parked planes and ensuring enough food and water and basic sanitation.
