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Clean air and water for Kanpur: restoring Lotus Creek
Volunteers are restoring Lotus Creek in Kanpur; $200 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
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Lotus Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This April, 75 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 155 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the district council, 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 $200 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $35
• Native saplings and stakes: $155
• Signage and educational materials: $10
Thank you so much.
- Radha
Updates from Radha
Update from Kanpur: we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. We're at 84% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
Small update. $142 so far, the first invoice got paid this week.
Thank you all. We're at 31% now ($62). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.
- Anonymous 🇪🇸 · $10
- Cengiz Oğuz Aslan 🇹🇷 · $25
“Praying for you. Saw your post and had to give. - Çankaya”
- Kingsley Chidi Nwankwo 🇳🇬 · $50
- Galina Iryna Kuznetsov 🇺🇦 · $25
- Anonymous 🇦🇷 · $50
- Roman M. Russell 🇺🇸 · $30
- Kevin K. Moreno 🇺🇸 · $12
- Emilia P. Edwards 🇺🇸 · $50
“Keep your head up! - Detroit”
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Keep going. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.
Take care, Radha. Hope you get there
Sending love. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I'll check back for the next update. Blessings.
Keep going, Radha. I hope things turn around soon. Greetings from São Paulo.
Rooting for you. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Love from London