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Restoring Acacia Creek: a volunteer-led project in San Diego
Volunteers are restoring Acacia Creek in San Diego; $2,900 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States2,044 views
Acacia Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 57 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 125 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the district council, 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 $2,900 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,700
• Tools and protective gear: $220
• Waste removal and skip hire: $700
• Signage and educational materials: $280
If you can't give, please share this page. It does reach people.
- Miles
Updates from Miles
We're at 50% thanks to 41 of you. we've started the first stage. More news soon.
Small update. $960 so far, the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled.
21% there. I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials. Thank you.
- Anonymous 🇬🇷 · $200
“My brother told me about this one. - Heraklion”
- Pablo A. Bravo 🇲🇽 · $200
- Daniela P. Ríos 🇨🇴 · $100
- Lungile H. Singh 🇿🇦 · $100
- Onyango Kioko Byaruhanga 🇰🇪 · $100
- Ángel G. Vargas 🇺🇸 · $100
- Tyler L. Webb 🇬🇧 · $100
“Take care of yourselves. Thought of Miles all day after reading this. - Bristol”
- Laura Emilia Hofmann 🇩🇪 · $77.50
“Every little bit. Gave what I could this week. - Düsseldorf”
- Federico Mattia Marchetti 🇮🇹 · $75
“Keep your head up. Hope the August deadline works out. - Salerno”
- Luigi Emanuele Bellini 🇮🇹 · $75
- Huda Salma Ibrahim 🇲🇦 · $57
- An Duy Vu 🇺🇸 · $54
- Tuyết Tuyết Dao 🇻🇳 · $50
- Johanna Karin Günther 🇩🇪 · $50
- Isabel Quizon 🇵🇭 · $50
- Serenity Dixon 🇺🇸 · $45
- Anton Berger 🇩🇪 · $30
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Wishing you the best. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. All the best.
Take care, Miles. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Love from Mumbai.
Hang in there. This could happen to any of us. Please keep us posted. All the best.
Good luck. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Thinking of San Diego
Praying for you, Miles. Your post was clear and honest. I have a 11 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Love from San Miguel de Tucumán.
Hope things get better soon. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I'll check back for the next update. Blessings.