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Clean water and shade for Hồ Chí Minh City: restoring Baobab Creek

Help us clean and replant Baobab Creek before the November planting window closes.

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Lâm Hải Thai
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Hồ Chí Minh City
Baobab Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 47 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 83 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 $400 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $145 • Tools and protective gear: $75 • Waste removal and skip hire: $135 • Signage and educational materials: $45 Every share and every dollar helps.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Lâm

  1. Update from Hồ Chí Minh City: we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. We're at 22% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. Update from Hồ Chí Minh City: we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. We're at 13% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  3. Quick update: $87 raised so far (22%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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  • Nakato Namukasa Mutebi

    Hang in there. More neighborhoods should do this. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected

    • Theodore A. Whitfield

      Praying for you, Lâm. This could happen to any of us. We're a small family in Yokohama but we're thinking of you. Greetings from Yokohama.

      • Suhas K. Savla

        Hang in there, Lâm. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. All the best.

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