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

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Acacia hillside needs $155 for saplings and equipment.

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Reza Lukman Mahendra
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Surabaya
The Acacia hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 51 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 92 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 $155 goes: • Tools and protective gear: $70 • Native saplings and stakes: $80 • Signage and educational materials: $5 Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Reza

  1. 38% there. I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Thank you.

  2. Quick update: $10 raised so far (6%). we've started the first stage. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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  • Sanduni Ranasinghe 🇱🇰 · $20
  • Yetunde Amaka Idowu 🇳🇬 · $49

    “Hang in there. Only $49 but hope it helps. - Lagos”

  • Omondi Victor Tembo 🇰🇪 · $10

    “Every little bit. Hope this covers a bit of it. - Machakos”

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  • Michelle W. Aquino

    Good luck. More neighborhoods should do this. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home.

    • Milon Imran Sen

      Hope it all works out, Reza. More neighborhoods should do this. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust!

      • Khalid Farhan Ghani

        Rooting for you. Hope you get there. Greetings from Pasig

        • Shawn H. Rogers

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

          $79 raised of $155

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