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Clean streets and rivers for Shubra: restoring the Cedar hillside

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Cedar hillside needs $200 for saplings and equipment.

🇪🇬 11376, Shubra, Cairo, Egypt1,135 views
Fatima Souad Jaber
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Shubra
The Cedar hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This January, 113 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 108 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 $200 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $80 • Tools and protective gear: $95 • Signage and educational materials: $25 Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly. - Fatima
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Fatima

  1. We're at 81% thanks to 5 of you. the first invoice got paid this week. More news soon.

  2. Small update. $136 so far, I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear.

  3. We're at 63% thanks to 3 of you. the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled. More news soon.

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    “Wish I could do more. Only $5 but hope it helps. - Wiesbaden”

  • Micah M. Murray 🇺🇸 · $25
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    “Thought of Fatima all day after reading this. - Kyiv”

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    “Wishing you the best. Thought of Fatima all day after reading this. - Bhopal”

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    “Get well soon. My father told me about this one. - Detroit”

  • María Montes 🇪🇸 · $90

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    Really cared about my situation

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  • Lyudmila Polina Rudenko

    hang in there, Fatima. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money.

    • Marilyn Banks

      You're not alone, Fatima. Hope you get there. Please keep us posted. Greetings from Gangnam.

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