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Clean water and shade for Galway: restoring Baobab Creek
Volunteers are restoring Baobab Creek in Galway; $1,250 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
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Baobab Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 92 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 78 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the city parks department, 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 $1,250 goes:
• Waste removal and skip hire: $600
• Tools and protective gear: $500
• Signage and educational materials: $150
Thank you for reading my story.
Updates from Colleen
4% there. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Thank you.
Update from Galway: the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. We're at 3% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
- Umesh Raju Rai 🇳🇵 · $100
- Rebecca A. Martinez 🇺🇸 · $36
“Blessings. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Rochester”
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $10
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Colleen!
Sure. The biggest one is waste removal and skip hire, $600. The rest is in the list at the bottom of the post and I'll upload receipts as I pay each one. Ask me anything else.
Thinking of you. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. We're a small family in Kadıköy but we're thinking of you.
Hope this works out for you. Put this on a community board in Kyiv this morning.
hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Love from Shubra.
Keep going, Colleen. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Take care.