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Clean streams for Ikeja: restoring Unity Beach

Volunteers are restoring Unity Beach in Ikeja; $400 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇳🇬 Lagos, Nigeria862 views
Emeka Ebuka Kalu
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Ikeja
Unity Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 61 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 61 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. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $400 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $230 • Waste removal and skip hire: $90 • Tools and protective gear: $80 I hope life is good to you.

Updates from Emeka

  1. We're at 20% thanks to 4 of you. the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled. More news soon.

  2. Thank you all. We're at 14% now ($54). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled.

  3. Small update. $44 so far, I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear. - Emeka

  • Afshan Samina Pasha 🇵🇰 · $34

    “Hope this helps. Thought of Emeka all day after reading this. - Rawalpindi”

  • Evans Wafula Massawe 🇰🇪 · $25
  • Nicolas Caron 🇲🇦 · $10
  • Ratna Zahra Halim 🇮🇩 · $10
  • Hélène Margaux Lucas 🇫🇷 · $10
  • Clara Christina Braun 🇩🇪 · $5

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