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A youth football pitch for the Jacaranda vacant lot: help our neighbors in Melbourne
We have the land, the volunteers and the plan for a youth football pitch - we need $1,950 for materials.
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia1,076 views
For twelve years the neighborhood has asked for a youth football pitch. This year a group of 26 volunteers, including the neighborhood football club, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Jacaranda vacant lot, but no funding.
We have received donated soil and plants, and the remaining cost is $1,950.
It will serve about 510 people, including young people who have nowhere safe to play. 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 $1,950 goes:
• Materials: $1,050
• Safety equipment and signage: $450
• Tools hire and delivery: $450
Every share and every dollar helps.
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- Silvia T. Flores 🇲🇽 · $100
“Hope the August deadline works out. - Monterrey”
- Wayne T. Johnson 🇯🇲 · $75
- Andrew Williamson 🇦🇺 · $66
“Every little bit! - Brisbane”
- Angel N. Aquino 🇵🇭 · $58
“Get well soon. I'm in Cebu City, thinking of you. - Cebu City”
- Dennis Peter Okello 🇹🇿 · $50
“Hope it all works out. Thought of Jose all day after reading this. - Dar es Salaam”
- Seung-woo Jin-woo Noh 🇺🇸 · $50
“Only $50 but hope it helps. - Nashville”
- Tushar C. Phadke 🇮🇳 · $25
- Doris R. Rios 🇬🇧 · $25
- Hua Lei Guo 🇺🇸 · $25
- Araceli J. Morales 🇲🇽 · $25
“Wish I could do more. Been where you're, it gets better. - Veracruz”
- Khánh Diệp Dang 🇻🇳 · $25
- Kipchoge Mwende Ochieng 🇰🇪 · $23
- Marta T. Delgado 🇪🇸 · $20
- Saraswathi A. Vaidyanathan 🇮🇳 · $20
- Sultana Sumaiya Zaman 🇧🇩 · $18
- Myra G. Panwar 🇮🇳 · $15
- Randall C. Peters 🇨🇦 · $10
- Raquel Beatriz Guimarães 🇧🇷 · $10
- Ayesha Jannat Bose 🇧🇩 · $10
- Chioma Kehinde Yakubu 🇳🇬 · $9
“Hope this helps. Only $9 but hope it helps. - Gwagwalada”
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Thinking of you, Jose. Your post was clear and honest. Put this on a community board in Davao City this morning
Sending love, Jose. I hope things turn around soon. Take care!
Praying for you, Jose. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I have a 10 year old who wants to send good wishes too.
Rooting for you, Jose. Your post was clear and honest.
Stay strong, Jose. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. All the best
Thanks for sharing this, Jose. It takes guts to ask. Well done. God bless.
sending good thoughts, Jose. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Greetings from Johannesburg
Take care, Jose. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer