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Clean water and shade for Louisville: restoring the Baobab hillside
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Baobab hillside needs $2,200 for saplings and equipment.
🇺🇸 Louisville, Kentucky, United States2,001 views
The Baobab hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This November, 61 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 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 $2,200 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,250
• Tools and protective gear: $450
• Waste removal and skip hire: $410
• Signage and educational materials: $90
Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself.
Updates from Frank
Wanted to say thank you properly. 37% funded and the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled.
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Sending good thoughts, Frank. Great idea, hope you get there
it takes guts to ask. Well done. Wish I lived closer to Dodoma so I could bring a meal.
sending strength. More neighborhoods should do this. All the best.
I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Thinking of Louisville
Wishing you peace, Frank. Looking forward to the next update. Don't give up