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Restoring Baobab Beach: a volunteer-led project in Riverside

Help us clean and replant Baobab Beach before the September planting window closes.

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Diya K. Chaturvedi
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Riverside
Baobab Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 102 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 200 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. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $1,750 goes: • Waste removal and skip hire: $240 • Native saplings and stakes: $870 • Tools and protective gear: $640 Every share and every dollar helps.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Diya

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($1,028 in total) the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Wanted to say thank you properly. 24% funded and I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear.

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    “From my family to yours. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Hải Phòng”

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    “Thought of Diya all day after reading this. - Shinjuku”

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    “Hang in there. From Nizamabad with love.”

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    “Wish I could do more. Hope the September deadline works out. - San Antonio”

  • Luca J. Watson 🇦🇺 · $30

    “Best of luck. From Geelong with love. - Geelong”

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    “From my family to yours. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Belfast”

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    “Wishing you the best. Only $30 but hope it helps. - Leeds”

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  • Caroline Atieno Simiyu

    This could happen to any of us. Love from Narayanganj.

    • Thanh Kim Kieu

      I hope things turn around soon. Thinking of Riverside.

      • Jasmine P. Francis

        Shared it with a few friends. I'm in public service myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. God bless.

        • Julián E. Carrillo

          hang in there. Hope you get there. My neighbor in Alexandria donated after I showed her your page. Blessings.

          • Gbenga Henry Kalu

            Stay strong, Diya. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. All the best

            $1,708 raised of $1,750

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