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Clean water and shade for Medina: restoring the Jacaranda hillside
Help us clean and replant the Jacaranda hillside before the November planting window closes.
🇸🇦 Medina, Madinah, Saudi Arabia1,193 views
The Jacaranda hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This September, 89 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 $1,050 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $340
• Native saplings and stakes: $590
• Signage and educational materials: $120
Thanks for reading all this.
Updates from Lubna
Small update. $208 so far, the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled.
Small update. $548 so far, the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled.
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Hope it all works out, Lubna. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. We're a small family in Thika but we're thinking of you. Blessings.
thanks for sharing this, Lubna. Hope you get there.
Hope things get better soon, Lubna. This could happen to any of us. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend.
Thanks for sharing this. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Thinking of Medina
More neighborhoods should do this. Wish I lived closer to Casablanca so I could bring a meal.
thinking of you, Lubna. More neighborhoods should do this. Take care.
Shared it with a few friends. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Greetings from Los Angeles!
Keep going, Lubna. Great idea, hope you get there. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Thinking of Medina
Keep going. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. My husband and I read this together.