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A playground for the Liberty health centre yard: help our neighbors in East London
We have the land, the volunteers and the plan for a playground - we need $800 for materials.
🇿🇦 East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa1,497 views
For ten years the neighborhood has asked for a playground. This year a group of 23 volunteers, including local mothers, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Liberty health centre yard, but no funding.
We have received donated paint, and the remaining cost is $800.
It will serve about 529 people, including elderly neighbors living alone. We'll hold a build day in November and everyone is invited.
We're a small team, and every dollar will be spent in the open - I'll post receipts and progress photos.
All purchases will be made by two volunteers and logged publicly. Surplus funds will go to maintenance.
Where the $800 goes:
• Tools hire and delivery: $165
• Safety equipment and signage: $65
• Materials: $570
If you're reading this, thank you.
- Sipho
Updates from Sipho
Thank you all. We're at 50% now ($400). I'm honestly stunned. I met with the suppliers and confirmed the amounts.
Quick update: $170 raised so far (21%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $20
- Stefano Mattia Piras 🇮🇹 · $32
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $10
“Get well soon. I'm in Leicester, thinking of you. - Leicester”
- Abril W. Rodríguez 🇺🇸 · $34.50
- Jagadish K. Yadav 🇮🇳 · $10
- Ximena R. Howard 🇬🇧 · $25
- George Joseph Bonsu 🇬🇭 · $20
- Henry Ebuka Raji 🇳🇬 · $25
“Happy to help. Hope the November deadline works out. - Kaduna”
- Rubén D. Flores 🇺🇸 · $50
“From my family to yours. Thought of Sipho all day after reading this. - Dallas”
- Waraporn Waraporn Eiamsa-ard 🇹🇭 · $15
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $100
- Mary Grace B. Enriquez 🇵🇭 · $100
- Lanre Tunde Okoro 🇳🇬 · $10
- Apio Mercy Kiptoo 🇰🇪 · $20
- Hanna Beata Michalski 🇵🇱 · $15
- Aarón M. Cordero 🇺🇸 · $50
“Hope it all works out. From Knoxville with love.”
- Hlengiwe T. Nkosi 🇿🇦 · $54
- Anushka N. Gokhale 🇮🇳 · $50.50
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Stay strong, Sipho. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Take care
Thanks for sharing this. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Love from Newcastle upon Tyne.
Best of luck, Sipho. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. It's not much but it's yours.
Wishing you the best, Sipho. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I have a 7 year old who wants to send good wishes too. All the best