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Clean air and water for Badagry: restoring the Pioneer canal

Help us clean and replant the Pioneer canal before the January planting window closes.

🇳🇬 Lagos, Nigeria240 views
Yinka Jide Okonkwo
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Badagry
The Pioneer canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This October, 59 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 105 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, including native species selected by a local botanist. The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade. All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $350 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $135 • Tools and protective gear: $80 • Waste removal and skip hire: $110 • Signage and educational materials: $25 Every share and every dollar helps.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

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  • Marcos Carlos Moraes

    Thinking of you and your family. I hope things turn around soon. I went through something like this 7 years ago and strangers helped me out. Love from Boston

    • Andrea A. Sánchez

      Thinking of you. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Thinking of Badagry.

      • Mohammed Faisal Siddiqui

        I hope things turn around soon. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Badagry.

        • Asher M. LynchPhoto verified

          thanks for sharing this, Yinka. This could happen to any of us. My husband and I read this together. Thinking of Badagry

          • Bolaji Chukwuemeka Popoola

            Thinking of you, Yinka. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer

            • Ramesh J. Ramachandran

              stay strong, Yinka. Hope you get there

              • Sebastian Filip Król

                thanks for sharing this, Yinka. Shared this with my family. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. God bless

                • Khoa Nam Doan

                  Stay strong. Shared this with my family. Thinking of Badagry

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