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Plant 3,300 native trees around the Baobab riverbank in Amsterdam
Volunteers are restoring the Baobab riverbank in Amsterdam; $1,950 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands1,858 views
The Baobab riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This April, 58 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 175 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, 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 $1,950 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $155
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,250
• Tools and protective gear: $545
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Wishing you the best. More neighborhoods should do this. Sent it to 4 people at work.
Keep going, Gijs. Hope you get there.
Good luck. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My neighbor in San Diego donated after I showed her your page. Love from San Diego.
how is Gijs doing now?
Thinking of you. This could happen to any of us. Wish I lived closer to St. Petersburg so I could bring a meal. Take care.
You're not alone, Gijs. Great idea, hope you get there. My neighbor in Tallahassee donated after I showed her your page. Thinking of Amsterdam.
Thinking of you, Gijs. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Greetings from Salé.
hang in there, Gijs. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Blessings