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Plant 1,350 native trees around the Lotus riverbank in Karachi
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Lotus riverbank needs $300 for saplings and equipment.
🇵🇰 Pakistan1,056 views
The Lotus riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This March, 78 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 64 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $300 goes:
• Waste removal and skip hire: $60
• Tools and protective gear: $75
• Native saplings and stakes: $165
I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
- Dua
Updates from Dua
Quick update: $181 raised so far (60%). I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Wanted to say thank you properly. 35% funded and I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire.
32% there. we've started the first stage. Thank you. - Dua
- Randall Butler 🇬🇧 · $135
- Swetha S. Pai 🇮🇳 · $75
- Bharath J. Yadav 🇮🇳 · $30
- Akoth Kiptoo 🇰🇪 · $25
“Best of luck. Hope the July deadline works out. - Kasarani”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $20
- Huda Rahma Wahba 🇪🇬 · $10
- Esther Eunice Kiprop 🇹🇿 · $10
“Get well soon. Hope you get the rest soon. - Mwanza”
- Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $10
- Wunmi Khadija Salami 🇳🇬 · $10
- Anonymous 🇰🇪 · $10
- Enrique B. Arias 🇲🇽 · $6
- Maya G. Scott 🇺🇸 · $5
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Wishing you the best. Great idea, hope you get there. God bless
This could happen to any of us. Greetings from Lecce.
Hang in there, Dua. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did.
keep going. I hope things turn around soon. I have a 11 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Blessings.
Hope it all works out, Dua. Shared it with a few friends. I hope July is when things finally get easier. Love from Toulon.