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Plant 1,100 native trees around the Freedom canal in Cape Coast
Volunteers are restoring the Freedom canal in Cape Coast; $250 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇬🇭 Cape Coast, Central, Ghana684 views
The Freedom canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 97 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 74 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $250 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $160
• Signage and educational materials: $15
• Waste removal and skip hire: $75
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
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- Imani Aisha Barasa 🇰🇪 · $75
- Jyoti L. Rawat 🇮🇳 · $25
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $25
“God bless. - Bristol”
- Miles S. Reyes 🇬🇧 · $5
- Isaiah J. Morgan 🇨🇦 · $5
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hang in there. Shared this with my family. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.
Can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Cape Coast
Thank you. If you're in Cape Coast I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. I'll keep the page updated.
Hope it all works out. This could happen to any of us. We're a small family in Rohini but we're thinking of you. Love from Rohini.
Wishing you peace. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My husband and I read this together. Greetings from Aswan
Hope it all works out, Kelvin. Hope you get there.
Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Kelvin.
The list at the bottom is the whole picture. native saplings and stakes is the biggest at $160. Let me know if you want more detail.
Praying for you. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Greetings from Bristol.
Thanks for sharing this. Hope this works out for you. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Thinking of Cape Coast.
How is Kelvin doing now?
Good luck. Hope this works out for you. Take care
Hope things get better soon. Shared it with a few friends. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Thinking of Cape Coast.
Wishing you peace, Kelvin. Looking forward to the next update.
You're not alone, Kelvin. Great idea, hope you get there. Don't be hard on yourself for asking
Sending strength. Hope you get there. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Greetings from Badagry
Rooting for you, Kelvin. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Take care.