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Clean streets and rivers for Sydney: restoring the Freedom riverbank
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Freedom riverbank needs $2,500 for saplings and equipment.
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The Freedom riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 35 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 158 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $2,500 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,400
• Tools and protective gear: $550
• Waste removal and skip hire: $410
• Signage and educational materials: $140
I hope life is good to you.
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hang in there. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't give up
Sending good thoughts, Owen. Shared this with my family. We're a small family in Dublin but we're thinking of you. Greetings from Dublin
thinking of you and your family, Owen. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Greetings from Contagem.
Rooting for you, Owen. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Love from San Jose
Wishing you the best. Great idea, hope you get there. Take care
more neighborhoods should do this. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. God bless