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Clean air and water for Belo Horizonte: restoring the Union riverbank
Volunteers are restoring the Union riverbank in Belo Horizonte; $300 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇧🇷 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil960 views
The Union riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 49 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 91 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the city parks department, 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 $300 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $170
• Signage and educational materials: $65
• Waste removal and skip hire: $65
I hope life is good to you.
- Felipe
Updates from Felipe
Update from Belo Horizonte: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 27% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
Quick update: $30 raised so far (10%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Michel Stéphane Gautier 🇫🇷 · $50
- Abena Gifty Manu 🇬🇭 · $43
- William Hedlund 🇸🇪 · $25
- Fabiana Luana Rezende 🇧🇷 · $20
“Hope things get better. Hope the August deadline works out. - Ribeirão Preto”
- Saad Salman Sandhu 🇵🇰 · $10
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Praying for you, Felipe. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. God bless!
Take care, Felipe. More neighborhoods should do this. I hope August is when things finally get easier
Sending strength, Felipe. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier.
I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. I'm in social work myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. Greetings from Tokyo.
sending strength, Felipe. Great idea, hope you get there. I have a 10 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Blessings.