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Clean water and shade for Heliopolis: restoring Sycamore Creek

Help us clean and replant Sycamore Creek before the October planting window closes.

🇪🇬 Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt1,239 views
Rima Lubna Sabbagh
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Heliopolis
Sycamore Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 117 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 87 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. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $250 goes: • Tools and protective gear: $60 • Native saplings and stakes: $120 • Waste removal and skip hire: $70 With deep gratitude, Rima
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Rima

  1. Update from Heliopolis: I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. We're at 13% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. Quick update: $34 raised so far (13%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  3. Thank you all. We're at 9% now ($22). I'm honestly stunned. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.

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  • Ignacio J. Mendoza

    Good luck, Rima. Hope you get there. God bless.

    • Mwangi Athumani MwangiAddress verified

      Stay strong, Rima. Shared this with my family. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day

      $83.50 raised of $250

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