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Clean water and shade for Çankaya: restoring Maple Beach

A neighborhood-led restoration of Maple Beach needs $450 for saplings and equipment.

🇹🇷 Çankaya, Ankara, Türkiye1,403 views
Onur Selim Yalçın
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Çankaya
Maple Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 68 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 76 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: $145 • Tools and protective gear: $165 • Waste removal and skip hire: $135 • Signage and educational materials: $5 If you're reading this, thank you. - Onur
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Onur

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 50% funded and we've started the first stage.

  2. Quick update: $344 raised so far (76%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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  • Maria L. AcostaPhoto verified

    praying for you, Onur. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Take care

    $511.50 raised of $450

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