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Plant 3,250 native trees around Lotus Beach in Kota
Volunteers are restoring Lotus Beach in Kota; $200 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇮🇳 Kota, Rajasthan, India947 views
Lotus Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This January, 60 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 135 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 $200 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $110
• Signage and educational materials: $30
• Waste removal and skip hire: $60
Thanks for being kind about this.
- Nitin
Updates from Nitin
Small update. $115 so far, the plan for signage and educational materials is now scheduled.
Good news. Because of your gifts ($115 in total) I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Small update. $40 so far, I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. - Nitin
- Jakob David Horn 🇩🇪 · $4.50
“Get well soon. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Stuttgart”
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $7
- Christopher F. Hudson 🇺🇸 · $25
“Keep your head up. Thought of Nitin all day after reading this.”
- Rabia Fatma Karaca 🇹🇷 · $50
- Angela Mendoza 🇨🇦 · $25
- Colton T. Stephens 🇺🇸 · $30
“I'm in Scranton, thinking of you. - Scranton”
- Colette Sylvie Simon 🇫🇷 · $10
“Stay strong! - Metz”
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how is Nitin doing now?
Good luck. More neighborhoods should do this. It's not much but it's yours. Greetings from Dnipro.
Wishing you the best, Nitin. Hope you get there. My husband and I read this together. All the best.
Hang in there, Nitin. It takes guts to ask. Well done. I'll check back for the next update. Thinking of Kota
Take care. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My neighbor in Joliet donated after I showed her your page. All the best.
Keep going, Nitin. Hope you get there.