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Clean streets and rivers for Hồ Chí Minh City: restoring the Acacia canal
Help us clean and replant the Acacia canal before the October planting window closes.
🇻🇳 Hồ Chí Minh City, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam667 views
The Acacia canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This September, 43 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 187 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.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $150 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $20
• Tools and protective gear: $70
• Waste removal and skip hire: $60
Thank you so much.
- Phương
Updates from Phương
We're at 102% thanks to 5 of you. I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear. More news soon.
We're at 33% thanks to 2 of you. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. More news soon.
Quick update: $50 raised so far (33%). I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Receipts coming as soon as I have them. - Phương
- Kurniawan Andi Siregar 🇮🇩 · $67.50
“You got this. Only $68 but hope it helps.”
- Iman Soliman 🇪🇬 · $25
- Taghreed Wafa Jaber 🇪🇬 · $10
- Pavithra P. Srinivasan 🇮🇳 · $67.50
- Antonio Gatti 🇮🇹 · $25
“Thought of Phương all day after reading this. - Padua”
- Gabriele Anna Krämer 🇩🇪 · $25
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Sending strength, Phương. Hope this works out for you.
good luck. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Thinking of Hồ Chí Minh City.
How is Phương doing now?
So sorry you're going through this. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected.
it takes guts to ask. Well done. Greetings from Enugu.
You're not alone. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. I have a 16 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Greetings from Perth
sending strength, Phương. Hope you get there.
Take care, Phương. Hope you get there. All the best
Thinking of you and your family, Phương. Great idea, hope you get there!
Thinking of you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Greetings from Dhaka
Thinking of you, Phương. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We're a small family in Pretoria but we're thinking of you. Take care
sending love, Phương. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Don't give up. Thinking of Hồ Chí Minh City
Sending strength. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Love from Brescia