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Jacaranda Beach cleanup and restoration: help our volunteer crew

A neighborhood-led restoration of Jacaranda Beach needs $1,600 for saplings and equipment.

🇫🇷 Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France2,095 views
Adam Rousseau
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Lyon
Jacaranda Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This October, 68 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 121 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 $1,600 goes: • Tools and protective gear: $300 • Native saplings and stakes: $1,050 • Waste removal and skip hire: $250 Thank you so much. - Adam

Updates from Adam

  1. Thank you all. We're at 22% now ($355). I'm honestly stunned. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.

  2. We're at 14% thanks to 10 of you. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. More news soon.

  3. Update from Lyon: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 5% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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  • Paul Wekesa Kioko 🇹🇿 · $42.50

    “Thought of Adam all day after reading this. - Dar es Salaam”

  • Simone Agnès Perez 🇫🇷 · $5

    “Happy to help. Thought of Adam all day after reading this. - Montpellier”

  • Kinsley Roberts 🇺🇸 · $10
  • Halyna Anastasia Polyakov 🇷🇺 · $50

    “Happy to help. Small amount but sent with love. - Saint Petersburg”

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  • Fabiana Amanda Marques 🇧🇷 · $20

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  • Elke Birgit Bauer 🇩🇪 · $30

    “You got this. I'm in Braunschweig, thinking of you.”

  • Sylvie Marchand 🇫🇷 · $50
  • Zlata Alina Davydov 🇷🇺 · $15

    “From my family to yours. From Novosibirsk with love. - Novosibirsk”

  • Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $5
  • Lindiwe W. Adams 🇿🇦 · $25
  • Robert Maciej Wiśniewski 🇵🇱 · $10
  • Zubair Salman Iqbal 🇵🇰 · $10

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  • Patricia M. Alcantara 🇵🇭 · $37.50
  • Sabbir Ratul Roy 🇮🇳 · $20

    “Sending love. Small amount but sent with love. - Saket”

  • Ana Viviane Pereira 🇧🇷 · $42
  • Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $25

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  • Shared it with a few friends. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Thinking of Lyon.

    • Thinking of you, Adam. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer.

      • Keep going. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My neighbor in Hamilton donated after I showed her your page

        • Is there anything that isn't money that would help Adam?

          • Adam RousseauOwnerAnswer

            Thank you. If you're in Lyon I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. It helps to be asked.

        • Lina Wafa TahaPhoto verified

          good luck, Adam. Shared it with a few friends. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.

          • Praying for you, Adam. Great idea, hope you get there. My brother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home

            • is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Adam!

              • Adam RousseauOwnerAnswer

                Everything on the list is an amount I've been quoted or invoiced. tools and protective gear comes first ($300) and I'll update the page as each thing gets paid. I'll keep the page updated.

            • Keep going, Adam. This could happen to any of us. Blessings!

              • Good luck, Adam. Looking forward to the next update. I hope January is when things finally get easier. Love from Patna.

                • hope it all works out, Adam. I hope things turn around soon. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.

                  • Rooting for you, Adam. Hope this works out for you. I'll check back for the next update.

                    • Hang in there. More neighborhoods should do this. All the best.

                      • Rooting for you. Hope this works out for you. Greetings from Birmingham

                        • Hope things get better soon, Adam. This could happen to any of us. My neighbor in Makati donated after I showed her your page. God bless.

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