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Clean streams for Mysuru: restoring the Lotus riverbank

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Lotus riverbank needs $250 for saplings and equipment.

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Apurva K. Deshpande
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Mysuru
The Lotus riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 73 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 66 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. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $250 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $85 • Signage and educational materials: $40 • Waste removal and skip hire: $125 I hope life is good to you.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Apurva

  1. Thank you all. We're at 84% now ($211). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.

  2. Update from Mysuru: I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. We're at 64% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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  • Alyssa Harris

    Sending good thoughts. This could happen to any of us. After 6 years in construction I know how hard it is to ask for anything.

    • Lester S. Enriquez

      Praying for you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I'm in engineering myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. Thinking of Mysuru.

      • Roberta Lucia Ferrara

        thinking of you and your family. Shared this with my family. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Greetings from Gaya.

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