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Clean air and water for San Diego: restoring Cedar Creek
A neighborhood-led restoration of Cedar Creek needs $3,400 for saplings and equipment.
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States2,283 views
Cedar Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 72 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 42 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 $3,400 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,650
• Tools and protective gear: $620
• Waste removal and skip hire: $880
• Signage and educational materials: $250
If you can't give, please share this page. It does reach people.
- Kai
Updates from Kai
Quick update: $617 raised so far (18%). we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Kostas Christos Makris 🇬🇷 · $10
- Bukola Zainab Lasisi 🇳🇬 · $25
- Carol M. Haynes 🇺🇸 · $15
- Anonymous 🇵🇰 · $59
- Anonymous 🇹🇭 · $50
- Magdalena Monika Szymański 🇵🇱 · $100
- Denise Gibson 🇺🇸 · $50
- Lorena Giovana Alves 🇧🇷 · $100
- Anonymous 🇨🇦 · $100
- Harini E. Subramanian 🇮🇳 · $100
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $25
- Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $54.50
- Pavel Yuri Ilyin 🇷🇺 · $50
“Blessings. Hope the August deadline works out. - Saint Petersburg”
- Márcia Isabela Paiva 🇧🇷 · $25
- Girish A. Gandhi 🇮🇳 · $54
- Anonymous 🇰🇷 · $10
“Keep your head up. Thought of Kai all day after reading this. - Seoul”
- Thabo D. Padayachee 🇿🇦 · $100
“Sending love. From George with love. - George”
- Riaan E. Lombard 🇿🇦 · $10
“Sending love. Thought of Kai all day after reading this. - Johannesburg”
- Bruno B. Luna 🇪🇸 · $25
“Thought of Kai all day after reading this. - Alicante”
- Daniel James Kyagulanyi 🇺🇬 · $10
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Thinking of you and your family, Kai. Looking forward to the next update. Put this on a community board in Duque de Caxias this morning.
Best of luck. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Sent it to 5 people at work.
thinking of you and your family. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. God bless
Praying for you, Kai. Hope you get there. After 20 years in engineering I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Love from Los Angeles.
Rooting for you. Shared this with my family. I'll check back for the next update. Love from Novosibirsk
sending strength, Kai. Hope this works out for you. I'll check back for the next update. Thinking of San Diego.
Wishing you peace. Looking forward to the next update. Wish I lived closer to Makassar so I could bring a meal. All the best.
Take care, Kai. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Blessings.
It takes guts to ask. Well done. I have a 17 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Love from Mumbai.
Take care, Kai. Great idea, hope you get there. All the best
Sending strength, Kai. This could happen to any of us. Blessings.
Sending good thoughts. Shared this with my family. I hope August is when things finally get easier. Blessings.