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Restoring Maple Beach: a volunteer-led project in Cologne
Volunteers are restoring Maple Beach in Cologne; $1,350 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
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Maple Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 100 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 127 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 $1,350 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $810
• Waste removal and skip hire: $420
• Signage and educational materials: $120
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
- Gabriele
Updates from Gabriele
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- Juan Fuentes 🇲🇽 · $25
“Keep your head up. Please keep us posted. - San Nicolás de los Garza”
- Maya K. McDonald 🇺🇸 · $10
“Happy to help. - Savannah”
- Anonymous 🇹🇷 · $40
“God bless! - Çankaya”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $62.50
“Hope this helps. Small amount but sent with love. - Arlington”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25
- Ricardo L. Estrada 🇦🇷 · $20
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $10
- Ani Gita Mahendra 🇮🇩 · $5
“God bless. My father told me about this one. - Bogor”
- Yulia Oksana Medvedev 🇷🇺 · $250
- Rabin Magar 🇳🇵 · $20
- Emer B. O'Connor 🇮🇪 · $10
“Best of luck - Cork”
- Mercedes N. Romero 🇺🇸 · $50
- Tamanna Tahmina Mondal 🇧🇩 · $20
- Beth F. Sullivan 🇺🇸 · $25
- Philipp Werner Dietrich 🇩🇪 · $34
“Rooting for you. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Kassel”
- Doris Gutierrez 🇺🇸 · $25
“Take care of yourselves. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Tampa”
- Anonymous 🇪🇸 · $20
- Princess L. Andrada 🇵🇭 · $30
“Every little bit. Hope the October deadline works out. - Quezon City”
- Petra Silke Beck 🇩🇪 · $25
- Elif Ceren Şahin 🇹🇷 · $10
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Rooting for you, Gabriele. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Take care.
More neighborhoods should do this. Wish I lived closer to Lahore so I could bring a meal. Greetings from Jerusalem.
can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Cologne
You're not alone, Gabriele. Your post was clear and honest. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend.
Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Gabriele
Native saplings and stakes is $810 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. I'll keep the page updated.
rooting for you. This could happen to any of us. Thinking of Cologne.
Wishing you peace, Gabriele. Shared it with a few friends. Blessings.
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Take care
Sending good thoughts, Gabriele. Great idea, hope you get there.