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Restoring Jacaranda Beach: a volunteer-led project in Laredo
A neighborhood-led restoration of Jacaranda Beach needs $1,400 for saplings and equipment.
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Jacaranda Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 64 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 98 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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 $1,400 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $330
• Signage and educational materials: $260
• Native saplings and stakes: $810
Every share and every dollar helps.
- Paloma
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Take care. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I went through something like this 7 years ago and strangers helped me out.
wishing you the best, Paloma. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Thinking of Laredo.
Thinking of you. Hope this works out for you. Don't be hard on yourself for asking.
Hope it all works out, Paloma. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. We're a small family in Noida but we're thinking of you. Blessings.
take care. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Take care.
sending strength. Looking forward to the next update. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Take care.
thanks for sharing this. This could happen to any of us. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Blessings.
Good luck, Paloma. Your post was clear and honest. Wish I lived closer to Mumbai so I could bring a meal
Keep going, Paloma. Hope this works out for you. It's not much but it's yours
Thanks for sharing this, Paloma. Great idea, hope you get there. God bless.