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Clean water and shade for Lagos: restoring Jacaranda Creek
Volunteers are restoring Jacaranda Creek in Lagos; $350 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
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Jacaranda Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 116 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 108 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, 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 $350 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $200
• Signage and educational materials: $35
• Tools and protective gear: $115
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So sorry you're going through this, Sade. Great idea, hope you get there. After 30 years in accounting I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Blessings.
Rooting for you, Sade. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My husband and I read this together. Greetings from Kassel.
Keep going, Sade. This could happen to any of us. I'm in retail myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. God bless.
Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. My husband and I read this together. Greetings from Leicester.
Sending good thoughts, Sade. Hope you get there. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust.
So sorry you're going through this, Sade. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Wish I lived closer to Saint-Denis so I could bring a meal. Thinking of Lagos.
So sorry you're going through this, Sade. Looking forward to the next update. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust!
thinking of you, Sade. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier
Hope you get there. I hope July is when things finally get easier. Greetings from San Diego.
Sending strength. Gave what I could, wish it was more. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Take care
good luck, Sade. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Put this on a community board in Mandeville this morning. Blessings.
thinking of you and your family. Shared it with a few friends. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double.