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Restoring Baobab Creek: a volunteer-led project in Polokwane

A neighborhood-led restoration of Baobab Creek needs $500 for saplings and equipment.

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Suren M. Reddy
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Polokwane
Baobab Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 82 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 110 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 $500 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $120 • Tools and protective gear: $130 • Waste removal and skip hire: $170 • Signage and educational materials: $80 If you're reading this, thank you.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Suren

  1. 64% there. we've started the first stage. Thank you.

  2. Update from Polokwane: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 53% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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  • Nadia Iryna GusevQuestion

    How is Suren doing now?

    • Zainab Farah Lotfy

      Thinking of you and your family, Suren. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Please keep us posted. Greetings from Ikeja.

      • Rani Jat

        Sending love, Suren. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't give up. Thinking of Polokwane

        • Eugene T. Owens

          A colleague of mine might know someone for this in Limpopo. I'll ask around and let you know.

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