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Clean air and water for Freiburg: restoring Union Beach

A neighborhood-led restoration of Union Beach needs $1,600 for saplings and equipment.

🇩🇪 Baden-Württemberg, Germany2,955 views
Johanna Hannah Simon
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Freiburg
Union Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 79 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 49 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 $1,600 goes: • Tools and protective gear: $540 • Waste removal and skip hire: $280 • Native saplings and stakes: $780 Thank you so much.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Johanna

  1. Update from Freiburg: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 75% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. Quick update: $1,072 raised so far (67%). I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  3. Good news. Because of your gifts ($228 in total) I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

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  • Yves Julien Marchand

    Good luck, Johanna. This could happen to any of us. Put this on a community board in Winston-Salem this morning. Greetings from Winston-Salem

    • Luciana Sandra Brito

      Hope it all works out. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Greetings from Machakos.

      • Grace Hawkins

        So sorry you're going through this, Johanna. Hope this works out for you.

        • Cláudia Edilene Albuquerque

          Best of luck, Johanna. This could happen to any of us. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. God bless

          • Noboru Murakami

            Keep going, Johanna. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. I hope August is when things finally get easier. Blessings

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