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Clean streams for Bursa: restoring Sycamore Creek
Volunteers are restoring Sycamore Creek in Bursa; $700 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇹🇷 Bursa, Türkiye1,457 views
Sycamore Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 71 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 local forestry office, 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 $700 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $360
• Tools and protective gear: $170
• Waste removal and skip hire: $145
• Signage and educational materials: $25
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
Updates from Efe
Wanted to say thank you properly. 16% funded and I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. - Efe
Thank you all. We're at 14% now ($100). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.
- Princess H. Pascual 🇵🇭 · $35
- Carmela N. Legaspi 🇵🇭 · $10
- Kendall J. Carroll 🇺🇸 · $100
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Thinking of you, Efe. I hope things turn around soon. Put this on a community board in Seoul this morning. Greetings from Seoul
Hope it all works out. More neighborhoods should do this. Thinking of Bursa
Hope it all works out, Efe. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Thinking of Bursa.
Hope things get better soon. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. I'll check back for the next update. Thinking of Bursa
It takes guts to ask. Well done. I'll check back for the next update. Greetings from Mukono.