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Clean air and water for Nnewi: restoring the Maple riverbank

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Maple riverbank needs $400 for saplings and equipment.

🇳🇬 Nnewi, Anambra, Nigeria620 views
Bolaji Adewale Gbadamosi
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Nnewi
The Maple riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This March, 34 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 103 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. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $400 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $210 • Tools and protective gear: $55 • Waste removal and skip hire: $80 • Signage and educational materials: $55 I hope life is good to you.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Bolaji

  1. Update from Nnewi: I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. We're at 56% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. Small update. $165 so far, the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled.

  3. Thank you all. We're at 10% now ($40). I'm honestly stunned. I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear.

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  • Emon Karim Zaman

    Thinking of you. Shared this with my family. My husband and I read this together. Blessings

    • Travis McBride

      Wishing you the best, Bolaji. Hope you get there. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like

      • Irina Oksana Novikov

        Rooting for you, Bolaji. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did.

        • Sabina Priya Majumder

          Wishing you the best. Great idea, hope you get there. My father had a similar thing happen so this one hit home.

          • Hiền My Luong

            Wishing you the best, Bolaji. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Blessings.

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