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Clean air and water for Bogotá: restoring the Maple riverbank
Help us clean and replant the Maple riverbank before the October planting window closes.
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The Maple riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 72 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 57 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $550 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $300
• Tools and protective gear: $65
• Waste removal and skip hire: $140
• Signage and educational materials: $45
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
Updates from Aarón
Quick update: $48 raised so far (9%). I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Rashidi John Mrema 🇰🇪 · $50
- Abena Janet Tetteh 🇬🇭 · $25
- Theo Peter Schumacher 🇩🇪 · $16.50
“Stay strong. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Cologne”
- Ignacio Hernández 🇨🇴 · $13
“Thought of Aarón all day after reading this. - Cartagena”
- Jenny P. Tolentino 🇵🇭 · $10
- Renate Schulze 🇩🇪 · $10
“God bless. From Essen with love.”
- Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $10
“Hope it all works out. Thought of Aarón all day after reading this. - Jakarta Selatan”
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Aarón
Keep going. Hope this works out for you. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Greetings from Port Harcourt.
Sending strength, Aarón. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. All the best.
great idea, hope you get there. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double.
Wishing you peace, Aarón. Your post was clear and honest. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust.
Hope it all works out, Aarón. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in.
So sorry you're going through this, Aarón. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Greetings from Savannah.
So sorry you're going through this, Aarón. Hope you get there.
Thinking of you and your family, Aarón. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. I hope October is when things finally get easier. Thinking of Bogotá.
Wishing you peace, Aarón. Hope this works out for you.
hope it all works out, Aarón. Hope this works out for you. Thinking of Bogotá
Take care. Shared this with my family. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it