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Restoring the Acacia hillside: a volunteer-led project in Nashik

Help us clean and replant the Acacia hillside before the September planting window closes.

🇮🇳 Nashik, Maharashtra, India392 views
Sneha M. Iyer
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Nashik
The Acacia hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 108 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 98 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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: • Tools and protective gear: $75 • Native saplings and stakes: $140 • Waste removal and skip hire: $85 I hope life is good to you. - Sneha

Updates from Sneha

  1. Quick update: $109 raised so far (36%). I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  2. We're at 36% thanks to 2 of you. the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled. More news soon. - Sneha

  3. Thank you all. We're at 19% now ($58). I'm honestly stunned. I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear.

  • Russell R. Carrillo 🇺🇸 · $58
  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $51
  • Nathan Henri Rolland 🇫🇷 · $10

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  • Praying for you, Sneha. This could happen to any of us

    • Thinking of you and your family, Sneha. Shared it with a few friends. Greetings from Accra.

      • hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. It's not much but it's yours. Thinking of Nashik.

        • Sending love. Hope this works out for you. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Take care.

          • Hope things get better soon, Sneha. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money.

            $119 raised of $300

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