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Clean streams for Iztapalapa: restoring Baobab Beach

Volunteers are restoring Baobab Beach in Iztapalapa; $550 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇲🇽 Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México, Mexico936 views
Graciela M. Macías
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Iztapalapa
Baobab Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This March, 88 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 153 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 $550 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $230 • Tools and protective gear: $175 • Waste removal and skip hire: $95 • Signage and educational materials: $50 Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure. - Graciela

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  • hang in there, Graciela. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Iztapalapa.

    • is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Graciela!

      • Native saplings and stakes is $230 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. Ask me anything else.

    • Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Please keep us posted. Greetings from Caloocan.

      • You're not alone, Graciela. Shared it with a few friends. I went through something like this 13 years ago and strangers helped me out. Blessings.

        • Hope things get better soon, Graciela. Shared this with my family

          • Hope things get better soon. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My husband and I read this together.

            • Shared this with my family. I went through something like this 2 years ago and strangers helped me out

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