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Restoring Maple Creek: a volunteer-led project in Manukau
A neighborhood-led restoration of Maple Creek needs $1,050 for saplings and equipment.
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Maple Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 83 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 128 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 $1,050 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $370
• Waste removal and skip hire: $600
• Signage and educational materials: $80
If you're reading this, thank you.
- Harold
Updates from Harold
Good news. Because of your gifts ($152 in total) we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Thank you all. We're at 9% now ($97). I'm honestly stunned. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.
- Pedro Maurício Moraes 🇧🇷 · $250
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $20
- Mustafa Efe Koç 🇹🇷 · $100
“Be well. My mother told me about this one. - Ankara”
- Rubén D. Díaz 🇺🇸 · $50
- Renata Małgorzata Dudek 🇵🇱 · $5
“Every little bit. Only $5 but hope it helps. - Gdańsk”
- Anonymous 🇩🇪 · $75
- Errol C. Richards 🇯🇲 · $10
“Wish I could do more. Thought of Harold all day after reading this. - Kingston”
- Hậu Tieu 🇻🇳 · $12
“Only $12 but hope it helps. - Hồ Chí Minh City”
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Hope it all works out, Harold. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. We're a small family in Tuxtla Gutiérrez but we're thinking of you.
Hope things get better soon, Harold. Hope you get there. Thinking of Manukau.
Thanks for sharing this, Harold. More neighborhoods should do this.
Wishing you peace. Gave what I could, wish it was more. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Take care
Hope it all works out. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Love from Yekaterinburg.