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Restoring Jacaranda Creek: a volunteer-led project in Quezon City
A neighborhood-led restoration of Jacaranda Creek needs $450 for saplings and equipment.
🇵🇭 Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines526 views
Jacaranda Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 59 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 73 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 $450 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $200
• Tools and protective gear: $35
• Waste removal and skip hire: $150
• Signage and educational materials: $65
Thanks for being kind about this.
Updates from Paolo
Wanted to say thank you properly. 53% funded and I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials.
9% there. I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear. Thank you.
- Satomi Misaki Ueda 🇯🇵 · $50
“Happy to help. Shared with friends too. - Tokyo”
- Chukwuemeka Nnamdi Kalu 🇳🇬 · $200
- Julian K. Lee 🇬🇧 · $40
“Thought of Paolo all day after reading this. - Leeds”
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Hope things get better soon, Paolo. Hope this works out for you.
good luck. This could happen to any of us. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected.
Wishing you the best, Paolo. Hope you get there. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Greetings from São Paulo
Sending good thoughts, Paolo. More neighborhoods should do this. I have a 14 year old who wants to send good wishes too.