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Restoring Liberty Beach: a volunteer-led project in Ibadan

Help us clean and replant Liberty Beach before the May planting window closes.

🇳🇬 Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria355 views
Zainab Joy Popoola
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Ibadan
Liberty Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This February, 60 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 77 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 $350 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $140 • Tools and protective gear: $70 • Waste removal and skip hire: $110 • Signage and educational materials: $30 Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Zainab

  1. Quick update: $180 raised so far (51%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  2. Quick update: $70 raised so far (20%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them. - Zainab

  3. Thank you all. We're at 6% now ($20). I'm honestly stunned. I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials.

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  • Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $100
  • Ayanda M. Singh 🇿🇦 · $50

    “Every little bit. Thought of Zainab all day after reading this. - Johannesburg”

  • Anonymous 🇵🇱 · $50
  • Julien André 🇲🇦 · $25

    “Take care of yourselves. From Tangier with love.”

  • Tika Bunga Salim 🇮🇩 · $10
  • Akinyi Zawadi Tembo 🇰🇪 · $10
  • Jasmine A. Garcia 🇵🇭 · $5
  • Teodoro P. Pascual 🇵🇭 · $5

    “Take care of yourselves. Thought of Zainab all day after reading this. - Pasig”

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  • Khadija Huda Zidan

    Hope things get better soon, Zainab. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My mother had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Greetings from Johannesburg.

    • Nana Emmanuel Manu

      Thanks for sharing this, Zainab. Hope this works out for you. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Love from Ottawa.

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