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Plant 3,600 native trees around the Lotus canal in Hải Phòng

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Lotus canal needs $250 for saplings and equipment.

🇻🇳 Hải Phòng, Vietnam1,483 views
Hoàng Bui
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Hải Phòng
The Lotus canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This February, 80 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 112 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. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $250 goes: • Waste removal and skip hire: $115 • Signage and educational materials: $20 • Tools and protective gear: $115 I hope life is good to you.

Updates from Hoàng

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($143 in total) the first invoice got paid this week. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Wanted to say thank you properly. 6% funded and the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled.

  3. Quick update: $15 raised so far (6%). I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  • Otávio Rodrigo Figueiredo 🇧🇷 · $112.50
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  • Mythili G. Rao 🇮🇳 · $15
  • Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $10
  • Kumar R. Yadav 🇮🇳 · $5

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  • Is waste removal and skip hire the biggest cost or is there more coming?

    • Hoàng BuiOwnerAnswer

      It's all in the list in the story. waste removal and skip hire is the big one at $115, I'll post a receipt when it's paid. Ask me anything else.

  • Sending good thoughts, Hoàng. Shared this with my family.

    • Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Thinking of Hải Phòng.

      $167.50 raised of $250

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