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Clean water and shade for Laredo: restoring the Sycamore wetland
Volunteers are restoring the Sycamore wetland in Laredo; $2,000 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
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The Sycamore wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 69 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 163 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 $2,000 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $125
• Waste removal and skip hire: $500
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,375
Thank you for reading my story.
- Beatriz
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can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Laredo!
Hope it all works out. Looking forward to the next update. Thinking of Laredo
thinking of you, Beatriz. Great idea, hope you get there. Greetings from Augusta.
Thinking of you, Beatriz. More neighborhoods should do this.
good luck, Beatriz. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. All the best
Thanks for sharing this, Beatriz. Shared this with my family
Wishing you peace, Beatriz. It takes guts to ask. Well done. God bless
Sending good thoughts. More neighborhoods should do this. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day
It takes guts to ask. Well done. Greetings from Albany
stay strong. Shared this with my family. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Love from Kinondoni
Hang in there. More neighborhoods should do this. Love from Fort Portal.
Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Thinking of Laredo
I hope things turn around soon. Don't give up. Greetings from Barranquilla
Wishing you peace. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Put this on a community board in Jakarta Selatan this morning. Love from Jakarta Selatan!