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Restoring Maple Beach: a volunteer-led project in Hồ Chí Minh City

A neighborhood-led restoration of Maple Beach needs $350 for saplings and equipment.

🇻🇳 Hồ Chí Minh City, Hồ Chí Minh City, Vietnam974 views
Nhân Sơn Trieu
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Hồ Chí Minh City
Maple Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 67 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 190 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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: $185 • Waste removal and skip hire: $115 • Signage and educational materials: $50 I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to. - Nhân
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Nhân

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($72 in total) I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Good news. Because of your gifts ($132 in total) we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  3. Good news. Because of your gifts ($162 in total) we've started the first stage. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

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    “Wish I could do more. Thought of Nhân all day after reading this. - Durban”

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