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Clean streams for Savar: restoring the Unity canal
Volunteers are restoring the Unity canal in Savar; $265 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇧🇩 Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh670 views
The Unity canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This October, 50 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 49 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 $265 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $130
• Tools and protective gear: $50
• Waste removal and skip hire: $80
• Signage and educational materials: $5
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Hope you get there. Wish I lived closer to Surat so I could bring a meal