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Plant 1,000 native trees around the Freedom canal in Salvador
Volunteers are restoring the Freedom canal in Salvador; $650 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇧🇷 Salvador, Bahia, Brazil457 views
The Freedom canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 32 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 109 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the district council, 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 $650 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $120
• Native saplings and stakes: $460
• Signage and educational materials: $70
I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
- Maria
Updates from Maria
Update from Salvador: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 28% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
Wanted to say thank you properly. 32% funded and we've started the first stage. - Maria
Quick update: $30 raised so far (5%). I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Manal Fatima Hamid 🇲🇦 · $100
“Be well. Thought of Maria all day after reading this. - Fez”
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $25
- Varun L. Gurjar 🇮🇳 · $20
- Anonymous 🇨🇴 · $5
- Pape Faye 🇳🇱 · $100
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $50
“Good luck. My neighbor told me about this one. - Newport”
- Martine Josiane Aubert 🇫🇷 · $10
- Oliver Pearson 🇺🇸 · $20
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Sending good thoughts, Maria. It takes guts to ask. Well done.