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Restoring Maple Beach: a volunteer-led project in Lagos
A neighborhood-led restoration of Maple Beach needs $400 for saplings and equipment.
🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria871 views
Maple Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 90 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 196 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $400 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $15
• Native saplings and stakes: $270
• Waste removal and skip hire: $115
If you're reading this, thank you.
- Khadija
Updates from Khadija
Thank you all. We're at 18% now ($70). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled. - Khadija
Thank you all. We're at 10% now ($40). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for signage and educational materials is now scheduled.
Good news. Because of your gifts ($15 in total) I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Anonymous 🇯🇲 · $34
- Anonymous 🇳🇵 · $10
- Oskar Lindström 🇸🇪 · $25
“Wishing you the best. Small amount but sent with love. - Stockholm”
- Sachin R. Sood 🇮🇳 · $30
- Sheldon D. Blake 🇯🇲 · $25
- Supriya W. Desai 🇮🇳 · $10
“Take care of yourselves. - Jalandhar”
- Frank Wallace 🇺🇸 · $5
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Hang in there, Khadija. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes
hang in there. Shared it with a few friends. Please keep us posted
Hope you get there. Wish I lived closer to Nnewi so I could bring a meal. Thinking of Lagos.