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Clean air and water for Bahir Dar: restoring the Baobab canal
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Baobab canal needs $250 for saplings and equipment.
🇪🇹 Bahir Dar, Amhara, Ethiopia1,044 views
The Baobab canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 31 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 120 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, 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.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $250 goes:
• Waste removal and skip hire: $45
• Signage and educational materials: $25
• Native saplings and stakes: $180
Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself.
- Robel
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Great idea, hope you get there. We're a small family in Los Angeles but we're thinking of you
Is there anything that isn't money that would help Robel?
Sharing the link is the biggest thing. And if you know anything about waste removal and skip hire, advice is welcome too. Appreciate you taking the time.
Thinking of you. Looking forward to the next update. I hope September is when things finally get easier
Thinking of you. Shared this with my family. Thinking of Bahir Dar.
Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Robel.
Waste removal and skip hire is $45 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. Let me know if you want more detail.
Sending strength, Robel. Shared this with my family. Sent it to 28 people at work. God bless
I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Wish I lived closer to Kisumu so I could bring a meal.
Great idea, hope you get there. My brother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Take care.