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Let's build a community garden together in San Jose

Volunteers in San Jose are raising $3,000 for a community garden at the Harmony community hall.

🇺🇸 California, United States1,564 views
Pilar S. Pacheco
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San Jose
For three years the neighborhood has asked for a community garden. This year a group of 16 volunteers, including local mothers, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Harmony community hall, but no funding. We have received donated timber, and the remaining cost is $3,000. It will serve about 537 people, including school children and their families. We'll hold a build day in November and everyone is invited. We're a small team, and every dollar will be spent in the open - I'll post receipts and progress photos. Funds are spent only on materials, permits and safety equipment; all labor is volunteered. Where the $3,000 goes: • Materials: $2,250 • Permits and inspections: $160 • Safety equipment and signage: $150 • Tools hire and delivery: $440 Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself. - Pilar
#community#volunteer-led#neighborhood

Updates from Pilar

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 15% funded and the plan for materials is now scheduled.

  2. Small update. $596 so far, I made the first payment toward materials.

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  • Jagadish N. Namboothiri 🇮🇳 · $20

    “Thought of Pilar all day after reading this. - Lucknow”

  • Maricel S. Quizon 🇵🇭 · $10

    “Rooting for you. Thought of Pilar all day after reading this. - Manila”

  • Carlos Acosta 🇲🇽 · $50
  • Erlangga Joko Maulana 🇮🇩 · $10
  • Ritu K. Prajapati 🇮🇳 · $10
  • Kiran B. Chettiar 🇮🇳 · $10
  • Anonymous 🇨🇦 · $10

    “Thought of Pilar all day after reading this. - Toronto”

  • Elizabeth Gyasi 🇬🇭 · $10

    “Good luck. Only $10 but hope it helps. - Accra”

  • Bruno Ferraro 🇮🇹 · $20

    “Rooting for you! - Catania”

  • Tamaki Nanami Shibata 🇯🇵 · $20
  • Mai Quyên Mai 🇻🇳 · $41

    “Hope things get better. Thought of Pilar all day after reading this. - Thủ Đức”

  • Melanie Paula Krause 🇩🇪 · $18
  • Grayson J. Hunt 🇬🇧 · $44

    “Thought of Pilar all day after reading this. - Dundee”

  • Arjun E. Kushwaha 🇬🇧 · $10
  • Consuelo M. Robles 🇺🇸 · $25

    “All the best - Glendale”

  • Nafula Nafula Mutua 🇹🇿 · $25
  • Anonymous 🇳🇿 · $200
  • Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $10
  • Manuela Letícia Silva 🇧🇷 · $10

    “All the best - Recife”

  • Karin J. Adams 🇿🇦 · $10

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  • Winda Wulan Permana

    Wishing you peace, Pilar. Hope this works out for you. I have a 13 year old who wants to send good wishes too

    • Omolara Peace Idowu

      thanks for sharing this. Great idea, hope you get there. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of San Jose.

      • Lucky Adewale Quadri

        Wishing you the best, Pilar. This could happen to any of us. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Greetings from Daegu.

        • Kamrul Shafiq Banerjee

          Hope you get there. Wish I lived closer to Kitakyushu so I could bring a meal.

          $1,178.50 raised of $3,000

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