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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, France2,382 views
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
Updates from Serge
27% there. I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials. Thank you.
Small update. $820 so far, we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.
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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.
Wishing you the best, Serge. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Take care.
sending love. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. All the best.
so sorry you're going through this. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Poitiers.
Take care, Serge. Hope you get there. Blessings.
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.
Great idea, hope you get there. I have a 12 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Love from Santos.
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