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Restoring Maple Creek: a volunteer-led project in Sakai

Volunteers are restoring Maple Creek in Sakai; $950 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇯🇵 Sakai, Osaka, Japan2,313 views
Ayaka Satomi Taniguchi
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Sakai
Maple Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 60 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 110 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the district council, 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 $950 goes: • Tools and protective gear: $310 • Native saplings and stakes: $550 • Signage and educational materials: $90 Every share and every dollar helps.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Ayaka

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($487 in total) the first invoice got paid this week. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Quick update: $270 raised so far (28%). I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

Donations

RecentTop gifts
  • Mohammad Rubel Mondal 🇬🇧 · $100
  • Eli L. Rowe 🇺🇸 · $100
  • Hira Sana Syed 🇵🇰 · $100
  • Rebecca W. Campos 🇺🇸 · $100
  • Krishnan L. Kumar 🇮🇳 · $100
  • Tanvir Bappy Ahmed 🇮🇳 · $75

    “Be well. Hope the July deadline works out. - Tiruchirappalli”

  • Vinícius Thiago Tavares 🇧🇷 · $62

    “Thinking of you. Only $62 but hope it helps. - Niterói”

  • Nasser Majid Mebarek 🇸🇦 · $50
  • Marites C. Uy 🇵🇭 · $50
  • Monique E. Williams 🇯🇲 · $50
  • Ssebuliba Hamisi Mwangi 🇺🇬 · $30
  • Silas N. Rodriguez 🇺🇸 · $25

    “You got this. Thought of Ayaka all day after reading this.”

  • Hiroto Sota Inoue 🇯🇵 · $25
  • Tewodros Solomon Assefa 🇪🇹 · $25

    “From my family to yours. Hope the July deadline works out. - Addis Ababa”

  • Ismael S. Salvador 🇵🇭 · $25
  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25

    “You got this. Hope the July deadline works out. - Oakland”

  • Gita Fani Permana 🇮🇩 · $25

    “Best of luck. Hope the July deadline works out. - Depok”

  • Emilio E. Maldonado 🇺🇸 · $20

    “Every little bit. Hope the July deadline works out. - Hialeah”

  • Simiyu Bakari Ssemwogerere 🇰🇪 · $20

    “Thinking of you. Only $20 but hope it helps. - Kikuyu”

  • Lalita Ubol Suwannarat 🇹🇭 · $20

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  • Prasad G. Jadhav

    Rooting for you. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Greetings from Quezon City

    • Moshe Omer Peretz

      You're not alone, Ayaka. Gave what I could, wish it was more. All the best.

      • Yael Keren Katz

        Sending good thoughts, Ayaka. Great idea, hope you get there. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Sakai.

        • Alexa Bowers

          Thanks for sharing this, Ayaka. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I hope July is when things finally get easier. God bless.

          • Adrián L. Medina

            wishing you the best. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My sister had a similar thing happen so this one hit home.

            $1,195.50 raised of $950

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