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Clean air and water for Bogotá: restoring the Freedom canal
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Freedom canal needs $300 for saplings and equipment.
🇨🇴 Bogotá, Bogotá D.C., Colombia853 views
The Freedom canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 97 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 136 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 $300 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $25
• Tools and protective gear: $145
• Waste removal and skip hire: $130
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Pilar
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- Duy Anh Trinh 🇻🇳 · $135
“Happy to help. From Hồ Chí Minh City with love.”
- Sri Rina Setiawan 🇮🇩 · $50
- Tyler Franklin 🇨🇦 · $44
- Valentina M. Álvarez 🇦🇷 · $25
- Gabriel C. Zamora 🇺🇸 · $20
“Hope this helps. Only $20 but hope it helps. - St. Petersburg”
- Hamza Hassan Haddad 🇪🇬 · $12.50
- Khalid Anwar Maalouf 🇸🇦 · $10
- Anonymous 🇦🇺 · $10
“Hope it all works out. My mother told me about this one. - Newcastle”
- Terry P. Steele 🇨🇦 · $10
- Nasrin Farhana Majumder 🇮🇳 · $5
“God bless. I'm in Pune, thinking of you. - Pune”
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Sending love, Pilar. This could happen to any of us. I'm in social work myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you.
Wishing you the best. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Don't be hard on yourself for asking.
can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Bogotá.
Sharing the link is the biggest thing. And if you know anything about signage and educational materials, advice is welcome too. Let me know if you want more detail.
So sorry you're going through this. Looking forward to the next update. I'm in retail myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you
Thinking of you, Pilar. I hope things turn around soon. It's not much but it's yours. Thinking of Bogotá
Keep going, Pilar. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes.