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Clean air and water for Parma: restoring the Baobab canal
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Baobab canal needs $850 for saplings and equipment.
🇮🇹 Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy1,236 views
The Baobab canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This April, 82 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 132 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 $850 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $200
• Signage and educational materials: $150
• Waste removal and skip hire: $500
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Any update on how things are going in Parma?
Wishing you the best. Hope you get there. Love from Bakersfield.
Hang in there, Malak. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Sent it to 16 people at work. Thinking of Parma!
Take care, Malak. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Wish I lived closer to Lagos so I could bring a meal
is tools and protective gear the biggest cost or is there more coming?
Tools and protective gear is $200 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page.
sending love, Malak. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I'll check back for the next update.
I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Greetings from Södertälje.
Can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Parma
Sharing the link is the biggest thing. And if you know anything about tools and protective gear, advice is welcome too.
shared it with a few friends. It's not much but it's yours. Take care.
hope things get better soon, Malak. This could happen to any of us. Don't give up. All the best.
Rooting for you. Hope you get there. I hope July is when things finally get easier.
Hope this works out for you. I'll check back for the next update. Greetings from Pretoria.
Hope things get better soon, Malak. Great idea, hope you get there. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. All the best
Stay strong. More neighborhoods should do this. Blessings
Sending strength, Malak. Shared this with my family. Wish I lived closer to Milan so I could bring a meal. Take care.
stay strong. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I hope July is when things finally get easier. Take care.