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Restoring Maple Creek: a volunteer-led project in Lahore
Help us clean and replant Maple Creek before the June planting window closes.
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Maple Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This February, 97 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 67 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.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $200 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $135
• Waste removal and skip hire: $50
• Signage and educational materials: $15
Thanks for being kind about this.
Updates from Arslan
Thank you all. We're at 65% now ($131). I'm honestly stunned. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.
Update from Lahore: we've started the first stage. We're at 50% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us. - Arslan
Update from Lahore: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 42% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us. - Arslan
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“Wishing you the best. Thought of Arslan all day after reading this. - Cork”
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“Blessings. Small amount but sent with love. - Radom”
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“Happy to help. Hope the June deadline works out. - Mumbai”
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Arslan.
Native saplings and stakes is $135 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. Ask me anything else.
Keep going, Arslan. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Thinking of Lahore.
Keep going. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in