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Plant 1,900 native trees around the Freedom hillside in Savar
Volunteers are restoring the Freedom hillside in Savar; $350 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇧🇩 Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh611 views
The Freedom hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 52 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 176 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 $350 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $220
• Tools and protective gear: $30
• Waste removal and skip hire: $100
I never thought I'd be the one asking, and I'm grateful for every bit of support.
- Ruma
Updates from Ruma
11% there. the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled. Thank you.
Thank you all. We're at 18% now ($64). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.
Thank you all. We're at 5% now ($19). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.
- Gerhard J. Smith 🇿🇦 · $10
“Every little bit. From Ekurhuleni with love. - Ekurhuleni”
- Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $50
“From my family to yours. Please keep us posted. - Iloilo City”
- Umesh C. Trivedi 🇮🇳 · $25
- Renate Köhler 🇩🇪 · $20
- Lorenzo E. Rojas 🇲🇽 · $4
- Thảo Khánh Cao 🇻🇳 · $15
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Ruma
The list at the bottom is the whole picture. native saplings and stakes is the biggest at $220. It helps to be asked.
Great idea, hope you get there. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Love from Los Angeles
sending strength. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Put this on a community board in Quezon City this morning
Praying for you, Ruma. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Take care