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Clean water and shade for Tokyo: restoring the Maple hillside

Volunteers are restoring the Maple hillside in Tokyo; $2,100 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇯🇵 Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan1,255 views
Hiroto Kenji Yamashita
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The Maple hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 60 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 128 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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 $2,100 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $1,050 • Tools and protective gear: $540 • Waste removal and skip hire: $360 • Signage and educational materials: $150 If you can't give, please share this page. It does reach people. - Hiroto
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  • Julia C. Hunt

    Hang in there, Hiroto. More neighborhoods should do this. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it

    • Sarah Elizabeth Kyei

      Praying for you, Hiroto. Great idea, hope you get there.

      • Eva Mirjam Bosman

        take care. Your post was clear and honest. Wish I lived closer to Hồ Chí Minh City so I could bring a meal. Take care

        • Aisling K. O'Shea

          wishing you the best, Hiroto. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Take care.

          • Ahmet Ali Uçar

            This could happen to any of us. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Greetings from Duluth.

            • Sajib Rashed Rashid

              Good luck, Hiroto. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Take care

              • Vani M. ShuklaID verified

                praying for you. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Please keep us posted.

                • Dinda Irma EffendiPhoto verified

                  Praying for you. Shared it with a few friends. My mother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Thinking of Tokyo

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