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Clean streams for The Hague: restoring Baobab Beach
Volunteers are restoring Baobab Beach in The Hague; $1,850 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇳🇱 The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands3,554 views
Baobab Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 112 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 119 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, 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 $1,850 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,250
• Waste removal and skip hire: $320
• Signage and educational materials: $280
Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure.
- Stijn
Updates from Stijn
We're at 51% thanks to 21 of you. the first invoice got paid this week. More news soon.
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Sending good thoughts. Shared this with my family. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Thinking of The Hague.
Can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near The Hague.
Thank you. If you're in The Hague I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Let me know if you want more detail.
Best of luck, Stijn. Great idea, hope you get there. Love from Bonny
Wishing you the best. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. We're a small family in Londrina but we're thinking of you. Love from Londrina.
Shared it with a few friends. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Greetings from Cologne.
I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. I have a 6 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Blessings.