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Clean water and shade for Juiz de Fora: restoring the Sycamore wetland

Volunteers are restoring the Sycamore wetland in Juiz de Fora; $600 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇧🇷 Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil1,583 views
Marcos Rafael Ferreira
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Juiz de Fora
The Sycamore wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 69 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 85 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the district council, 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 $600 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $350 • Tools and protective gear: $85 • Waste removal and skip hire: $120 • Signage and educational materials: $45 Thanks for reading all this. - Marcos
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Marcos

  1. Small update. $129 so far, the first invoice got paid this week.

  2. Update from Juiz de Fora: the plan for signage and educational materials is now scheduled. We're at 20% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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  • Ashwin G. Ramachandran

    Best of luck, Marcos. Your post was clear and honest. Sent it to 35 people at work. Love from Tiruchirappalli.

    • Sohel Rakib Mia

      Thinking of you and your family. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend

      $182 raised of $600

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