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Clean streams for Pretoria: restoring the Liberty canal
Volunteers are restoring the Liberty canal in Pretoria; $300 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇿🇦 Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa752 views
The Liberty canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 58 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 150 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $300 goes:
• Waste removal and skip hire: $115
• Tools and protective gear: $150
• Signage and educational materials: $35
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
Updates from Dumisani
We're at 25% thanks to 4 of you. the first invoice got paid this week. More news soon.
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“Blessings - Paris”
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“All the best. From Tema with love.”
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“Happy to help. Hope the September deadline works out. - Nuremberg”
- Nolan A. Walters 🇺🇸 · $32
“Thought of Dumisani all day after reading this.”
- Manit Chatchai Ruangrit 🇹🇭 · $5
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sending strength. Hope this works out for you. I have a 10 year old who wants to send good wishes too.
hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Blessings
Is there anything that isn't money that would help Dumisani?
Thank you. If you're in Pretoria I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Fair thing to want to know.
Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Blessings
Rooting for you. It takes guts to ask. Well done. My neighbor in Guarulhos donated after I showed her your page.
how is Dumisani doing now?
sending love. I hope things turn around soon. Greetings from Saint-Étienne
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Please keep us posted
More neighborhoods should do this. My husband and I read this together. Greetings from Thrissur.
Good luck. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. After 23 years in farming I know how hard it's to ask for anything. All the best!