MoneyEnvironment
Clean water and shade for Barcelona: restoring the Freedom canal
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Freedom canal needs $1,650 for saplings and equipment.
🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain1,138 views
The Freedom canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This March, 61 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 190 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 $1,650 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $730
• Tools and protective gear: $260
• Waste removal and skip hire: $530
• Signage and educational materials: $130
Thanks for reading all this.
Updates from Mónica
Thank you all. We're at 17% now ($280). I'm honestly stunned. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.
Small update. $150 so far, I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials.
- Elias Brandt 🇩🇪 · $100
- Perla F. Dizon 🇺🇸 · $50
- Siobhan H. Molony 🇮🇪 · $50
- Ganesh B. Gandhi 🇮🇳 · $50
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25
“Happy to help. Hope the May deadline works out. - Philadelphia”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25
- Rosa K. Zamora 🇪🇸 · $20
- Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $20
- Roberto Heitor Oliveira 🇧🇷 · $10
- Jumoke Esther Okonkwo 🇳🇬 · $10
- Olivia H. Riley 🇺🇸 · $10
- Elijah A. Delgado 🇳🇿 · $5
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $5
Reviews
Only people who gave to this need, or whose offer to help was accepted, can review it.
No reviews yet.
Questions & comments
Ask before you give. Email-verified members can comment and ask questions - no donation needed.
Sign in or create a free account to join the conversation.
Sending strength, Mónica. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Blessings.
Sending good thoughts, Mónica. Hope this works out for you. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like.
Keep going, Mónica. Shared it with a few friends
Thinking of you, Mónica. Shared it with a few friends. All the best.
Praying for you. Your post was clear and honest. Love from Nuremberg.