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Clean streets and rivers for Gaziantep: restoring the Jacaranda canal

Volunteers are restoring the Jacaranda canal in Gaziantep; $450 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇹🇷 27073, Gaziantep, Gaziantep, Türkiye648 views
Tolga Erdem Güneş
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Gaziantep
The Jacaranda canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 97 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 59 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 $450 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $185 • Tools and protective gear: $105 • Waste removal and skip hire: $105 • Signage and educational materials: $55 Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself. - Tolga
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

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  • Carmen Dinu

    Thinking of you. This could happen to any of us. I hope September is when things finally get easier. God bless.

    • Keren Naama DayanQuestion

      Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Tolga.

      • Tolga Erdem GüneşOwnerAnswerID verified

        Sure. The biggest one is native saplings and stakes, $185. The rest is in the list at the bottom of the post and I'll upload receipts as I pay each one. It helps to be asked.

    • Chang-min Gun-woo Seo

      wishing you the best, Tolga. This could happen to any of us.

      • Taylor Brennan

        Hope things get better soon, Tolga. This could happen to any of us. My brother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Take care

        • Giovanni Davide Bianco

          Praying for you, Tolga. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry

          • Anna Teresa Nowakowski

            Thanks for sharing this, Tolga. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Blessings.

            • Leonardo R. AriasPhoto verified

              thanks for sharing this. More neighborhoods should do this

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