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Clean streams for Bornova: restoring the Pioneer hillside
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Pioneer hillside needs $600 for saplings and equipment.
🇹🇷 İzmir, Türkiye1,709 views
The Pioneer hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This October, 107 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 111 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the city parks department, 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 $600 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $60
• Waste removal and skip hire: $220
• Native saplings and stakes: $320
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
Updates from Cengiz
We're at 33% thanks to 7 of you. I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. More news soon.
Quick update: $73 raised so far (12%). I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
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hope you get there. My husband and I read this together. God bless.