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Clean streams for Mecca: restoring the Union riverbank
Volunteers are restoring the Union riverbank in Mecca; $500 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇸🇦 Mecca, Makkah, Saudi Arabia1,311 views
The Union riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This October, 107 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 127 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 $500 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $270
• Signage and educational materials: $100
• Tools and protective gear: $130
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Hala
Updates from Hala
We're at 76% thanks to 6 of you. the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. More news soon.
- Adaeze Nkechi Onyeama 🇳🇬 · $5
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- Ingrid Van der Wal 🇳🇱 · $50
“Rooting for you. Thought of Hala all day after reading this. - Amsterdam”
- Nikolai Evgeny Melnyk 🇺🇦 · $10
- Shakil Habib Molla 🇧🇩 · $71
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So sorry you're going through this. Hope you get there. I hope January is when things finally get easier
Praying for you, Hala. Gave what I could, wish it was more.