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Restoring the Acacia hillside: a volunteer-led project in Faisalabad
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Acacia hillside needs $300 for saplings and equipment.
🇵🇰 Punjab, Pakistan532 views
The Acacia hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 111 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 182 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the city parks department, 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 $300 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $135
• Tools and protective gear: $50
• Waste removal and skip hire: $70
• Signage and educational materials: $45
Thank you so much.
Updates from Sana
Quick update: $129 raised so far (43%). I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
35% there. the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. Thank you.
- Büşra Defne Aslan 🇹🇷 · $25
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $20
“Hope things get better. Please keep us posted. - Nottingham”
- Dayo Ibrahim Anyanwu 🇳🇬 · $10
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $14
“Be well. Shared with friends too. - Coimbatore”
- Sang-hoon Hong 🇺🇸 · $100
“Blessings. Only $100 but hope it helps. - San Jose”
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $5
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Hang in there, Sana. This could happen to any of us. After 19 years in hospitality I know how hard it's to ask for anything. God bless
Keep going, Sana. I hope things turn around soon. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Thinking of Faisalabad.
You're not alone, Sana. I hope things turn around soon. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust. Thinking of Faisalabad.
So sorry you're going through this, Sana. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer.
how is Sana doing now?
Best of luck, Sana. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Blessings
I hope things turn around soon. Greetings from Contagem
Hope it all works out, Sana. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We're a small family in Mecca but we're thinking of you. All the best.
Hope this works out for you. I'm in hospitality myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. God bless!
Sending strength, Sana. More neighborhoods should do this. Greetings from Üsküdar.
Keep going. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Greetings from Los Angeles!