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A rainwater harvesting system for Jacaranda Park: help our neighbors in Badagry
A community-led a rainwater harvesting system at Jacaranda Park that will serve 195 neighbors.
🇳🇬 Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria803 views
For ten years the neighborhood has asked for a rainwater harvesting system. This year a group of 16 volunteers, including the neighborhood football club, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for Jacaranda Park, but no funding.
We have received donated paint, and the remaining cost is $150.
It will serve about 195 people, including school children and their families. We'll hold a build day in August 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 $150 goes:
• Permits and inspections: $35
• Safety equipment and signage: $50
• Tools hire and delivery: $65
With deep gratitude,
Kelechi
Updates from Kelechi
Good news. Because of your gifts ($26 in total) the first invoice got paid this week. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Small update. $26 so far, the first invoice got paid this week.
Update from Badagry: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 7% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
- Jasmine J. Palmer 🇯🇲 · $6
“Hope things get better. I'm in Half-Way Tree, thinking of you.”
- Nancy Kimaro 🇺🇬 · $15
“Thought of Kelechi all day after reading this. - Mukono”
- Heather Turner 🇺🇸 · $11
“Get well soon. Thought of Kelechi all day after reading this.”
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Sending strength, Kelechi. Great idea, hope you get there. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money.
so sorry you're going through this, Kelechi. Great idea, hope you get there. Greetings from San Miguel de Tucumán!
Praying for you. More neighborhoods should do this. We're a small family in Salem but we're thinking of you