Wayne Crowsley was born in the big city on 3 September 1954. He grew up under poor conditions with an ill father and honest mother. Being an only child and fairly shy, he spent much of his time reading and listening to jazz masters like John Coletrain and Miles Davis, contemplating his dreams and how it’s even possible to reach them. At school he pretty much kept to himself; talking was overrated and so were most of the kids around him according to Notes from the Underground. He would ultimately find himself, not necessarily the way he thought, but being a humanitarian proved to be his purpose in life.

So Wayne Crowsley got into business development. With only the knowledge of high school and the things he’s read, the eagerness to end poverty grew like a wildfire inside him. Doing paper routes and working in gardens, he managed to save enough money to buy a decent suite, then stepped into the local bank with nothing but an idea that he’d been working on for a few years. Switching from shy little boy to a professional business man, he managed to convince the bank to invest in his quest to get people off the street.

Giving homeless people a job and a hostile to sleep in, just for cleaning the streets, were welcomed by the municipal authorities. All they had to do was pay Wayne Crowsley, and in turn he would make sure no garbage would be found on public sidewalks. Of course not all the homeless people wanted this job, but the majority joined in, seeing it as a stepping stone for something bigger or at least someone giving them a break. Wayne Crowsley never made millions off this business venture, but he did find himself in his quest to help those who he was able to help.