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Restoring Lotus Creek: a volunteer-led project in Columbus
Help us clean and replant Lotus Creek before the February planting window closes.
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Lotus Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This December, 75 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 155 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $2,300 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,300
• Tools and protective gear: $500
• Waste removal and skip hire: $340
• Signage and educational materials: $160
Thanks for reading all this.
- Rodrigo
Updates from Rodrigo
Update from Columbus: the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. We're at 44% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
- Jahid Faruk Mondal 🇧🇩 · $10
- Shawn S. Hanson 🇨🇦 · $10
- Kshitija Trivedi 🇮🇳 · $25
“Praying for you. Hope you get the rest soon. - Rajkot”
- Gilles Brunet 🇲🇦 · $10
- Natalie G. Walker 🇺🇸 · $200
- Oksana Diana Smirnov 🇺🇦 · $50
- Bo-ra Eun-kyung Min 🇰🇷 · $64
- Lakshmi E. Sundaram 🇮🇳 · $10
- Hana Amira Aziz 🇲🇦 · $25
“Stay strong. Hope the February deadline works out. - Casablanca”
- Liza K. Fernandez 🇵🇭 · $10
“Thought of Rodrigo all day after reading this. - Pasig”
- Anonymous 🇮🇹 · $17
- Grayson G. Long 🇺🇸 · $25
- Hellen Janet Tembo 🇰🇪 · $20
- Kajal W. Bhosale 🇮🇳 · $13
“Happy to help. Hope the February deadline works out. - Noida”
- Anonymous 🇲🇽 · $50
- María J. Cordero 🇺🇸 · $50
- Anonymous 🇵🇰 · $25
- Umesh J. Shukla 🇮🇳 · $50
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $10
- Joshua J. Flores 🇵🇭 · $25
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Good luck. Your post was clear and honest. It's not much but it's yours. Greetings from Makati
Thinking of you and your family, Rodrigo. Great idea, hope you get there. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. All the best
Stay strong, Rodrigo. This could happen to any of us. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money.
sending love. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in.
hope it all works out, Rodrigo. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Don't give up. All the best.