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Plant 4,900 native trees around the Lotus riverbank in Mendoza
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Lotus riverbank needs $350 for saplings and equipment.
🇦🇷 Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina1,111 views
The Lotus riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 115 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 137 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 $350 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $180
• Signage and educational materials: $50
• Tools and protective gear: $120
Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself.
Updates from Mateo
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- Siddharth A. Ranade 🇮🇳 · $5
“Stay strong. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Patna”
- Dua Sadia Chaudhry 🇵🇰 · $30
- Farhana Lipi Rahman 🇧🇩 · $100
“Good luck. My cousin told me about this one. - Gazipur”
- Anonymous 🇰🇪 · $25
- Deepa W. Acharya 🇮🇳 · $20
- Sunita Durga Maharjan 🇳🇵 · $70
“Best of luck. Thought of Mateo all day after reading this. - Kathmandu”
- Babar Shoaib Ghani 🇵🇰 · $63
“Best of luck. My cousin told me about this one. - Rawalpindi”
- Sita F. Sharma 🇬🇧 · $30
- Junko Sachiko Fujita 🇯🇵 · $21
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wishing you the best. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Please keep us posted. Love from Mansoura
Hope it all works out, Mateo. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Blessings.
Keep going, Mateo. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Thinking of Mendoza
It takes guts to ask. Well done. It's not much but it's yours. Greetings from Casablanca.
So sorry you're going through this, Mateo. Looking forward to the next update. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. God bless
Wishing you the best, Mateo. Hope you get there. I'll check back for the next update. Love from Kraków.
Hope this works out for you. Thinking of Mendoza.
Keep going, Mateo. It takes guts to ask. Well done. My neighbor in Athens donated after I showed her your page. God bless
Hang in there. Shared it with a few friends. Love from Berlin.
More neighborhoods should do this. Don't give up. All the best.