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Lotus Park needs a free library and reading room - Aaliyah's neighborhood project
A community-led a free library and reading room at Lotus Park that will serve 296 neighbors.
🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States1,761 views
For twelve years the neighborhood has asked for a free library and reading room. This year a group of 29 volunteers, including a retired civil engineer, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for Lotus Park, but no funding.
We have received donated timber, and the remaining cost is $2,400.
It will serve about 296 people, including school children and their families. We'll hold a build day in October 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 $2,400 goes:
• Safety equipment and signage: $370
• Materials: $1,600
• Tools hire and delivery: $430
Every share and every dollar helps.
- Aaliyah
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Good luck, Aaliyah. Your post was clear and honest. I went through something like this 7 years ago and strangers helped me out
Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Thinking of Oakland.
Thanks for sharing this. This could happen to any of us. Thinking of Oakland.
Thinking of you and your family, Aaliyah. Great idea, hope you get there. My neighbor in București donated after I showed her your page.
Thanks for sharing this. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. God bless.
Sending good thoughts, Aaliyah. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Love from Kampala.