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Clean air and water for Jakarta Selatan: restoring the Baobab wetland

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Baobab wetland needs $450 for saplings and equipment.

🇮🇩 Jakarta Selatan, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia1,055 views
Vino Kurniawan Tampubolon
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Jakarta Selatan
The Baobab wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 77 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 56 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 $450 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $270 • Tools and protective gear: $40 • Waste removal and skip hire: $75 • Signage and educational materials: $65 I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to. - Vino
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Vino

  1. Update from Jakarta Selatan: we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. We're at 6% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. Quick update: $23 raised so far (5%). I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  3. Thank you all. We're at 2% now ($10). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled.

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  • Mim Dola Mahmud 🇧🇩 · $13

    “Wishing you the best. Thought of Vino all day after reading this. - Dhaka”

  • Muhammad Zubair Kakar 🇵🇰 · $10
  • Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $5

    “Keep your head up. - Bristol”

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