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Clean air and water for Epe: restoring the Lotus riverbank
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Lotus riverbank needs $250 for saplings and equipment.
🇳🇬 Epe, Lagos, Nigeria753 views
The Lotus riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 72 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 177 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $250 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $100
• Tools and protective gear: $40
• Waste removal and skip hire: $55
• Signage and educational materials: $55
Every share and every dollar helps.
- Festus
Updates from Festus
Update from Epe: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 77% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
Good news. Because of your gifts ($133 in total) the plan for signage and educational materials is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Elena D. Aquino 🇵🇭 · $112.50
- Rabia Zoya Hanif 🇵🇰 · $50
- Leo G. Wright 🇺🇸 · $28
“Stay strong. Shared with friends too. - Joliet”
- Camila B. Treviño 🇺🇸 · $20
- Nathan A. Robertson 🇺🇸 · $10
- Ruby P. Miranda 🇺🇸 · $10
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Sending strength, Festus. Great idea, hope you get there. Take care.
How is Festus doing now?
Hang in there. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I have a 7 year old who wants to send good wishes too. All the best.
Hang in there. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Don't give up. Thinking of Epe.
Stay strong, Festus. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Take care.