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Clean streets and rivers for Erie: restoring the Unity hillside
Help us clean and replant the Unity hillside before the October planting window closes.
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The Unity hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 69 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 69 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 $2,100 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,300
• Tools and protective gear: $220
• Waste removal and skip hire: $390
• Signage and educational materials: $190
With deep gratitude,
Josephine
Updates from Josephine
Small update. $917 so far, the first invoice got paid this week.
- Swapna R. Parikh 🇮🇳 · $250
- Taras Mazur 🇺🇦 · $200
- Adel Kamel 🇸🇦 · $100
- Komal S. Dhawan 🇮🇳 · $100
- Miles S. Armstrong 🇬🇧 · $100
- Katherine H. Neal 🇺🇸 · $100
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $75
- Chhaya E. Nanda 🇦🇺 · $75
“Wish I could do more. Thought of Josephine all day after reading this.”
- Madeline R. Zimmerman 🇬🇧 · $75
- Emery L. Nguyen 🇺🇸 · $52
- Geetha W. Mudaliar 🇮🇳 · $50
- Maya Yarden Stern 🇮🇱 · $50
- Tyler F. Sanders 🇦🇺 · $50
“Wishing you the best. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Wollongong”
- Titilayo Ife Aliyu 🇳🇬 · $50
“Best of luck. Thought of Josephine all day after reading this. - Lagos”
- Claudia G. Reyes 🇲🇽 · $34
- Travis A. White 🇺🇸 · $30
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $30
- Shapla Shefali Mukherjee 🇧🇩 · $25
- Lukman Oky Surya 🇮🇩 · $25
“Hope things get better. Shared with friends too. - Makassar”
- Nuria W. Santos 🇲🇽 · $25
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Hope it all works out, Josephine. Shared it with a few friends. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Love from Gangnam.
More neighborhoods should do this. Please keep us posted. Blessings.
Hope you get there. My cousin had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Love from Mysuru.
great idea, hope you get there. My mother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home.