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Plant 1,300 native trees around the Cedar canal in Toronto

Volunteers are restoring the Cedar canal in Toronto; $2,150 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada1,775 views
Alok A. Singh
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Toronto
The Cedar canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 87 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 165 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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 $2,150 goes: • Tools and protective gear: $350 • Waste removal and skip hire: $400 • Native saplings and stakes: $1,400 I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to. - Alok
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Alok

  1. We're at 28% thanks to 11 of you. I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear. More news soon.

  2. Update from Toronto: the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled. We're at 41% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  3. Update from Toronto: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 50% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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  • Ben SchröderPhoto verified

    Wishing you peace, Alok. Hope you get there. Put this on a community board in Cape Town this morning.

    • Zenaida C. SorianoPhoto verified

      Keep going. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Thinking of Toronto

      • Anthony R. Ford

        So sorry you're going through this. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. God bless

        • Marie Perrot

          good luck. Shared this with my family. Wish I lived closer to São Paulo so I could bring a meal. God bless.

          • Uche Kunle Onyeama

            take care. Great idea, hope you get there. I'm in retail myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. God bless

            • Grayson Bishop

              looking forward to the next update. We're a small family in Salerno but we're thinking of you. Greetings from Salerno.

              • Micah J. Watts

                you're not alone, Alok. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Wish I lived closer to Onitsha so I could bring a meal. God bless.

                • James Lucas

                  sending love, Alok. This could happen to any of us. My husband and I read this together. Greetings from Edinburgh

                  $2,529.50 raised of $2,150

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