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Plant 3,150 native trees around Cedar Creek in Shinjuku

Volunteers are restoring Cedar Creek in Shinjuku; $1,700 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇯🇵 Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan2,911 views
Hideo Yuma Kato
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Shinjuku
Cedar Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 110 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 110 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 $1,700 goes: • Waste removal and skip hire: $500 • Signage and educational materials: $210 • Native saplings and stakes: $990 I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to. - Hideo
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Hideo

  1. Small update. $1,748 so far, I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.

  2. Thank you all. We're at 29% now ($489). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.

  3. Quick update: $434 raised so far (26%). we've started the first stage. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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    “Happy to help. Please keep us posted. - Zagazig”

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    “Wish I could do more. Only $10 but hope it helps. - București”

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    “God bless. Thought of Hideo all day after reading this. - San Jose”

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    “Best of luck. Small amount but sent with love. - Yekaterinburg”

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    “Thinking of you. Please keep us posted. - Bellevue”

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    “Hope things get better. Only $25 but hope it helps. - Bogotá”

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  • Modupe Chioma Akinwale

    Thinking of you and your family. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. God bless.

    • Delroy J. Bailey

      thanks for sharing this, Hideo. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. All the best

      $1,997.50 raised of $1,700

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