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Plant 3,000 native trees around the Maple hillside in Jakarta

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Maple hillside needs $450 for saplings and equipment.

🇮🇩 Jakarta, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia2,231 views
Elsa Zahra Wibowo
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Jakarta
The Maple hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This February, 35 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 143 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. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $450 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $250 • Tools and protective gear: $85 • Waste removal and skip hire: $105 • Signage and educational materials: $10 If you're reading this, thank you. - Elsa
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Elsa

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($173 in total) I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Update from Jakarta: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 13% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  3. Small update. $55 so far, I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire.

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    “Keep your head up. I'm in Gulu, thinking of you.”

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  • Rainer Karl Schumacher 🇩🇪 · $10
  • Brandon Gaines 🇨🇦 · $25

    “Hope things get better. Thought of Elsa all day after reading this.”

  • Violet P. Santiago 🇺🇸 · $10

    “Hope things get better. Been where you're, it gets better. - Sacramento”

  • Deepa G. Kurup 🇮🇳 · $10

    “God bless. Only $10 but hope it helps. - Hubballi”

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  • Santiago Javier Hernández

    Take care, Elsa. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money

    • Rajesh H. JatQuestion

      how is Elsa doing now?

      • William R. FullerPhoto verified

        sending love. Great idea, hope you get there. It's not much but it's yours. Thinking of Jakarta

        • Nazia Kiran KhanID verified

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

          $265 raised of $450

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