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Restoring Lotus Creek: a volunteer-led project in Jinja

A neighborhood-led restoration of Lotus Creek needs $350 for saplings and equipment.

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Esther Akello Athumani
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Jinja
Lotus Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This March, 32 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 149 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 $350 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $200 • Tools and protective gear: $60 • Waste removal and skip hire: $55 • Signage and educational materials: $35 You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it. - Esther

Updates from Esther

  1. Thank you all. We're at 6% now ($21). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.

  2. Wanted to say thank you properly. 3% funded and the plan for signage and educational materials is now scheduled.

  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25
  • Manee Nongnuch Tangsiri 🇹🇭 · $10

    “Thinking of you. From Khon Kaen with love.”

  • Gabriella F. Nelson 🇬🇧 · $11

    “From my family to yours. Thought of Esther all day after reading this. - Leeds”

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  • Thinking of you. Your post was clear and honest. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. God bless

    • can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Jinja

      • thinking of you, Esther. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer.

        • Luke H. SantosID verified

          Good luck, Esther. Hope you get there. After 29 years in accounting I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Thinking of Jinja.

          • Great idea, hope you get there. Put this on a community board in Girona this morning. Greetings from Girona

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