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Clean streets and rivers for Grenoble: restoring the Liberty canal

Volunteers are restoring the Liberty canal in Grenoble; $2,550 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇫🇷 Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France2,595 views
Mathieu Anthony David
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Grenoble
The Liberty canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 95 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 120 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the city parks department, 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 $2,550 goes: • Tools and protective gear: $460 • Native saplings and stakes: $1,600 • Waste removal and skip hire: $490 If you can't give, please share this page. It does reach people.

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  • Naresh P. AroraID verifiedPhoto verified

    Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Love from Corpus Christi

    • Sending strength, Mathieu. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My neighbor in Fukuoka donated after I showed her your page. All the best

      • Good luck. Gave what I could, wish it was more. It's not much but it's yours. Blessings.

        • Hope it all works out, Mathieu. Great idea, hope you get there. My husband and I read this together.

          • wishing you peace, Mathieu. More neighborhoods should do this. Love from Quetta

            • so sorry you're going through this. Hope this works out for you. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. All the best.

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