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Clean water and shade for Nairobi: restoring Lotus Beach

Volunteers are restoring Lotus Beach in Nairobi; $500 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇰🇪 Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya1,221 views

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Lotus Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 100 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 113 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. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $500 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $210 • Tools and protective gear: $80 • Waste removal and skip hire: $145 • Signage and educational materials: $65 Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.

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Wanted to say thank you properly. 27% funded and I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials.
Good news. Because of your gifts ($84 in total) I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

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Efua Yaa Larbi
Thanks for sharing this. I hope things turn around soon. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Blessings.
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Thinking of you and your family. Hope this works out for you. Greetings from San Jose!

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