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Clean streets and rivers for Mekelle: restoring the Harmony wetland

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Harmony wetland needs $300 for saplings and equipment.

🇪🇹 Tigray, Ethiopia479 views
Gashaw Teklu Assefa
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Mekelle
The Harmony wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 76 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 78 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 $300 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $140 • Tools and protective gear: $25 • Waste removal and skip hire: $100 • Signage and educational materials: $35 Thank you so much.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Gashaw

  1. We're at 29% thanks to 2 of you. the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled. More news soon.

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  • Rebecca W. BishopID verified

    Hope it all works out. Hope you get there. Thinking of Mekelle

    • Zawadi Irene Kiptoo

      Wishing you peace, Gashaw. Hope this works out for you. Sent it to 15 people at work. Thinking of Mekelle.

      • Mahesh Prasanna Wickramasinghe

        hope things get better soon. Hope you get there. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Take care

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