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Clean air and water for Ogbomosho: restoring the Lotus riverbank
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Lotus riverbank needs $250 for saplings and equipment.
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The Lotus riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 44 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 60 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 $250 goes:
• Waste removal and skip hire: $105
• Tools and protective gear: $100
• Signage and educational materials: $45
Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself.
- Kemi
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stay strong, Kemi. Looking forward to the next update. Take care
Sending strength, Kemi. Hope this works out for you. Take care.
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Wish I lived closer to Rome so I could bring a meal.
Keep going, Kemi. Looking forward to the next update!
Praying for you. Gave what I could, wish it was more. After 10 years in logistics I know how hard it's to ask for anything.
Praying for you, Kemi. Great idea, hope you get there. Thinking of Ogbomosho!
Hope you get there. Sent it to 8 people at work. Greetings from San Diego.
You're not alone, Kemi. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Take care.
Gave what I could, wish it was more. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Love from Nakhon Ratchasima
keep going. More neighborhoods should do this. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Thinking of Ogbomosho.