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Clean streets and rivers for Shinjuku: restoring the Cedar hillside

Help us clean and replant the Cedar hillside before the November planting window closes.

🇯🇵 160-7839, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan3,111 views
Taiga Noboru Yamazaki
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Shinjuku
The Cedar hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 32 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 90 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the district council, 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 $1,600 goes: • Waste removal and skip hire: $560 • Native saplings and stakes: $860 • Signage and educational materials: $180 You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.

Updates from Taiga

  1. Small update. $986 so far, the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled.

  2. Wanted to say thank you properly. 60% funded and I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes.

  3. Quick update: $482 raised so far (30%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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  • Sajib Imran Mukherjee 🇧🇩 · $20
  • Mustafa Hatem Jaber 🇲🇦 · $100
  • Sadie M. Powers 🇬🇧 · $20
  • Chatchai Kongkaew 🇹🇭 · $30
  • Anonymous 🇿🇦 · $10
  • Daniela M. Castillo 🇪🇸 · $100
  • Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $20

    “Sending love. Thought of Taiga all day after reading this. - Jakarta Barat”

  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $39
  • Michelle G. Zamora 🇵🇭 · $20

    “Happy to help. Only $20 but hope it helps. - Davao City”

  • Nicolás L. Muñoz 🇨🇴 · $10

    “God bless. Thought of Taiga all day after reading this. - Bogotá”

  • Nipa Nasrin Howlader 🇧🇩 · $30

    “Hope things get better. Thought of Taiga all day after reading this. - Dhaka”

  • Chhaya A. Kashyap 🇺🇸 · $5

    “Praying for you. Only $5 but hope it helps. - Spokane”

  • Reagan F. Austin 🇺🇸 · $9

    “Hope it all works out. Saw your post and had to give. - Denver”

  • Vrushali P. Vyas 🇮🇳 · $100
  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $15

    “Keep your head up. Hope the November deadline works out. - Seattle”

  • Cecilia Ulla Samuelsson 🇸🇪 · $34.50

    “Hope it all works out. Thought of Taiga all day after reading this.”

  • Mateo L. Cruz 🇺🇸 · $50
  • Dhanalakshmi K. Goud 🇮🇳 · $25

    “Keep your head up. Thought of Taiga all day after reading this. - Mumbai”

  • Ruth Rose Ssebuliba 🇰🇪 · $25

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  • wishing you peace. Looking forward to the next update. Don't give up. Take care

    • Sending good thoughts. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I hope November is when things finally get easier. Blessings

      • Best of luck. Shared it with a few friends. I have a 9 year old who wants to send good wishes too

        • So sorry you're going through this, Taiga. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Blessings.

          • thinking of you and your family, Taiga. More neighborhoods should do this. I have a 17 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Greetings from Khon Kaen.

            • how is Taiga doing now?

              • Your post was clear and honest. Thinking of Shinjuku.

                • Keep going, Taiga. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double.

                  • So sorry you're going through this. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Love from Islamabad.

                    • Thinking of you, Taiga. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. All the best.

                      • Wishing you the best, Taiga. It takes guts to ask. Well done.

                        • Good luck, Taiga. More neighborhoods should do this. Wish I lived closer to Heliopolis so I could bring a meal. All the best.

                          • Yamini G. JainAddress verified

                            Sending love, Taiga. I hope things turn around soon. Wish I lived closer to Liverpool so I could bring a meal.

                            • Sending love, Taiga. Hope you get there. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day.

                              • Best of luck, Taiga. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I went through something like this 11 years ago and strangers helped me out.

                                • Fatma GüneşID verified

                                  I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. My neighbor in Jessore donated after I showed her your page

                                  • Festus Uchenna OkoroPhoto verified

                                    Your post was clear and honest. Greetings from Cincinnati.

                                    • More neighborhoods should do this. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Blessings.

                                      $1,708.50 raised of $1,600

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