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Clean streets and rivers for Mombasa: restoring the Union riverbank

Volunteers are restoring the Union riverbank in Mombasa; $450 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇰🇪 Mombasa, Kenya1,342 views
Esther Nafula Kimani
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Mombasa
The Union riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 107 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 146 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, 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: $270 • Tools and protective gear: $35 • Waste removal and skip hire: $90 • Signage and educational materials: $55 Thanks for being kind about this.

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  • Wishing you peace, Esther. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. God bless.

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