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Plant 4,850 native trees around Freedom Creek in Ikeja
A neighborhood-led restoration of Freedom Creek needs $300 for saplings and equipment.
🇳🇬 Lagos, Nigeria276 views
Freedom Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 58 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 180 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 $300 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $130
• Tools and protective gear: $95
• Waste removal and skip hire: $65
• Signage and educational materials: $10
If you can't give, please share this page. It does reach people.
- Ifeoma
Updates from Ifeoma
Quick update: $125 raised so far (42%). I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Wanted to say thank you properly. 42% funded and we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. - Ifeoma
- Eda Gamze Demir 🇹🇷 · $48
“Thought of Ifeoma all day after reading this. - Istanbul”
- Kingsley Lanre Uba 🇳🇬 · $20
- Folake Sade Oyelaran 🇳🇬 · $100
- Émilie Clémence Guyot 🇫🇷 · $25
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So sorry you're going through this, Ifeoma. I hope things turn around soon. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Love from Manchester
Wishing you peace, Ifeoma. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Blessings.
Thinking of you and your family, Ifeoma. Your post was clear and honest. Love from Depok