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Restoring Cedar Creek: a volunteer-led project in Dar es Salaam

Volunteers are restoring Cedar Creek in Dar es Salaam; $260 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇹🇿 Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania1,047 views
Joyce Atieno Kiptoo
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Dar es Salaam
Cedar Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 97 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 115 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 $260 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $75 • Tools and protective gear: $75 • Waste removal and skip hire: $105 • Signage and educational materials: $5 Thank you so much. - Joyce
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Joyce

  1. 52% there. the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. Thank you.

  2. Thank you all. We're at 35% now ($91). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for signage and educational materials is now scheduled.

Donations

RecentTop gifts
  • Pallavi M. Trivedi 🇮🇳 · $10

    “Hope this helps. Only $10 but hope it helps. - Muzaffarpur”

  • Paul Faure 🇫🇷 · $75
  • Blessing Amaka Anyanwu 🇳🇬 · $25
  • Huy Nam Kieu 🇻🇳 · $20
  • Anna Ylva Persson 🇸🇪 · $60
  • Paweł Krzysztof Kozłowski 🇵🇱 · $25
  • Anonymous 🇧🇩 · $6

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  • Anand E. Raju

    More neighborhoods should do this. I have a 14 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Greetings from Pune.

    • Kwabena Michael Tetteh

      thanks for sharing this, Joyce. Gave what I could, wish it was more. My neighbor in Gatineau donated after I showed her your page. Take care!

      • Salman Kamran NaqviID verified

        You're not alone. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Take care.

        $221 raised of $260

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