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Restoring Maple Creek: a volunteer-led project in Miami
A neighborhood-led restoration of Maple Creek needs $3,050 for saplings and equipment.
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Maple Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 95 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 64 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $3,050 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $2,000
• Tools and protective gear: $590
• Waste removal and skip hire: $370
• Signage and educational materials: $90
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
Updates from Zoey
Thank you all. We're at 27% now ($826). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.
- Dolores Ochoa 🇺🇸 · $100
- Alka A. Goyal 🇮🇳 · $5
- Kato Byaruhanga Barasa 🇹🇿 · $50
- Abhishek E. Meena 🇮🇳 · $50
- Sunil A. Tripathi 🇮🇳 · $20
- Federica Ferri 🇮🇹 · $12
“Take care of yourselves. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Venice”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $10
“Hope the September deadline works out. - Cincinnati”
- Natalia Tatiana Danylenko 🇺🇦 · $25
- Anonymous 🇲🇦 · $50
- Kehinde Ngozika Akinwale 🇳🇬 · $25
“All the best. My mother told me about this one. - Awka”
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $10
- Artur Stanisław Marciniak 🇵🇱 · $10
- Isaac T. Lynch 🇺🇸 · $30
“Wishing you the best. Saw your post and had to give. - New York”
- Isla D. Sanders 🇺🇸 · $34.50
- Francisca Maria Guimarães 🇧🇷 · $50
- Ayesha Puja Hossain 🇮🇳 · $200
“Hang in there. Been where you are, it gets better. - Coimbatore”
- Chiamaka Modupe Jimoh 🇳🇬 · $25
- Niluka Nilmini Kumarasinghe 🇱🇰 · $20
- Kelechi Uche Gbadamosi 🇳🇬 · $200
“Happy to help. Only $200 but hope it helps. - Lagos”
- Shailesh E. Deshpande 🇮🇳 · $9
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Hang in there, Zoey. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Take care.