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Clean water and shade for Fort Worth: restoring the Jacaranda riverbank
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Jacaranda riverbank needs $2,950 for saplings and equipment.
🇺🇸 Fort Worth, Texas, United States5,257 views
The Jacaranda riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This February, 67 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 121 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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 $2,950 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,300
• Tools and protective gear: $630
• Waste removal and skip hire: $950
• Signage and educational materials: $70
With deep gratitude,
Frank
Updates from Frank
Thank you all. We're at 91% now ($2,698). I'm honestly stunned. the first invoice got paid this week.
Thank you all. We're at 51% now ($1,512). I'm honestly stunned. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.
Update from Fort Worth: I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. We're at 26% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
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Sending love, Frank. It takes guts to ask. Well done.
So sorry you're going through this, Frank. Looking forward to the next update. Love from Bekasi
Keep going. Hope you get there. Love from Leeds.
Good luck, Frank. Gave what I could, wish it was more
rooting for you. More neighborhoods should do this. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. All the best.
Thinking of you and your family. Great idea, hope you get there. I have a 10 year old who wants to send good wishes too. God bless.
Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Put this on a community board in Colombo this morning. Blessings
Best of luck. Great idea, hope you get there. I have a 6 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Thinking of Fort Worth.
shared it with a few friends. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Love from Thane.
Praying for you, Frank. Shared it with a few friends. God bless.
Wishing you the best, Frank. Great idea, hope you get there. Take care.
hope you get there. Love from San Cristóbal de las Casas.
Sending strength, Frank. Looking forward to the next update. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Love from George.
Best of luck, Frank. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Take care.
sending good thoughts. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like
Hope it all works out, Frank. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I hope April is when things finally get easier
Wishing you peace, Frank. Your post was clear and honest. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
thinking of you, Frank. Shared this with my family. Greetings from Tel Aviv.
Thinking of you and your family, Frank. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double.
thanks for sharing this, Frank. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I'll check back for the next update.
Stay strong, Frank. More neighborhoods should do this. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Greetings from Gdynia