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Plant 3,450 native trees around Freedom Creek in Kolkata
A neighborhood-led restoration of Freedom Creek needs $150 for saplings and equipment.
🇮🇳 West Bengal, India231 views
Freedom Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This December, 38 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 155 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $150 goes:
• Waste removal and skip hire: $90
• Signage and educational materials: $15
• Tools and protective gear: $45
If you can't give, please share this page. It does reach people.
- Sudha
Updates from Sudha
Good news. Because of your gifts ($75 in total) the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Afshan Amna Qureshi 🇵🇰 · $20
“Blessings. Thought of Sudha all day after reading this.”
- Anonymous 🇵🇰 · $25
“Good luck. Hope the March deadline works out. - Karachi”
- Shireen B. Mokoena 🇿🇦 · $67.50
“Wish I could do more! - Stellenbosch”
- Heather T. Walsh 🇺🇸 · $7
- Anele K. Adams 🇿🇦 · $67.50
“Praying for you. - Pretoria”
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Thinking of you and your family. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer!
Keep going, Sudha. Great idea, hope you get there. Thinking of Kolkata.
Wishing you peace. Shared it with a few friends. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. God bless.