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Restoring Sycamore Creek: a volunteer-led project in Poitiers

A neighborhood-led restoration of Sycamore Creek needs $1,400 for saplings and equipment.

🇫🇷 Poitiers, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France2,381 views
Serge Arthur Le Gall
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Poitiers
Sycamore Creek has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 113 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 81 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 $1,400 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $430 • Tools and protective gear: $310 • Waste removal and skip hire: $490 • Signage and educational materials: $170 Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself. - Serge
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Serge

  1. 27% there. I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials. Thank you.

  2. Small update. $820 so far, we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.

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  • Naveen B. Kapoor 🇮🇳 · $20
  • Yashodha Prabha Perera 🇱🇰 · $50
  • Kevin B. Collins 🇮🇪 · $5

    “Hope this helps. Thought of Serge all day after reading this. - Dublin”

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  • Nghĩa Bình Phung 🇻🇳 · $30

    “Hope this helps. Thought of Serge all day after reading this. - Hồ Chí Minh City”

  • Anonymous 🇻🇳 · $64
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  • Angel J. Villanueva 🇵🇭 · $48

    “Take care of yourselves. Thought of Serge all day after reading this. - Manila”

  • Eunice Afia Peprah 🇬🇭 · $10

    “Thought of Serge all day after reading this. - Tarkwa”

  • Jade D. Gray 🇺🇸 · $20

    “Hang in there. Thought of Serge all day after reading this. - San Francisco”

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  • Gerhard S. Van Wyk 🇿🇦 · $25

    “Blessings. Thought of Serge all day after reading this. - Ekurhuleni”

  • Raquel Beatriz Siqueira 🇧🇷 · $50
  • Skylar A. Elliott 🇺🇸 · $25

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  • Jocelyn L. Castro

    So sorry you're going through this. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I went through something like this 12 years ago and strangers helped me out. God bless.

    • Sarah S. Allen

      Wishing you the best, Serge. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Take care.

      • Winda Novi Sutanto

        sending love. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. All the best.

        • Erica M. Hernandez

          so sorry you're going through this. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Poitiers.

          • Ksenia Milena Korolev

            Take care, Serge. Hope you get there. Blessings.

            • Raúl M. Ruiz

              Thinking of you. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Love from St. Petersburg.

              • Bennett Myers

                Great idea, hope you get there. I have a 12 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Love from Santos.

                • Fe F. Manalo

                  Wishing you peace, Serge. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Greetings from Hamilton

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