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Plant 3,350 native trees around Cedar Beach in Karlsruhe

A neighborhood-led restoration of Cedar Beach needs $2,300 for saplings and equipment.

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Ziad Bilal Hamdan
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Karlsruhe
Cedar Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 92 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 124 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 $2,300 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $1,100 • Tools and protective gear: $580 • Waste removal and skip hire: $490 • Signage and educational materials: $130 Every share and every dollar helps.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Ziad

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($507 in total) the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. 10% there. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Thank you.

  3. Update from Karlsruhe: we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. We're at 9% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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  • Diana Hannah Abdul

    best of luck, Ziad. Hope you get there. Blessings

    • Ngozika Chiamaka Nwachukwu

      Keep going, Ziad. Great idea, hope you get there. All the best.

      • Mehul L. Deshpande

        Shared this with my family. Sent it to 33 people at work. God bless

        • Lucky E. Naidoo

          praying for you, Ziad. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. All the best.

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