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Plant 4,600 native trees around the Harmony canal in New Delhi

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Harmony canal needs $400 for saplings and equipment.

🇮🇳 New Delhi, Delhi, India405 views
Vidya N. Kumar
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New Delhi
The Harmony canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 52 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 90 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 $400 goes: • Signage and educational materials: $30 • Waste removal and skip hire: $65 • Native saplings and stakes: $305 Thank you so much. - Vidya
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Vidya

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 61% funded and I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire.

  2. 43% there. the plan for signage and educational materials is now scheduled. Thank you.

  3. Quick update: $138 raised so far (35%). I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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  • Babatunde Jide Igwe

    hope things get better soon, Vidya. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend.

    $380 raised of $400

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