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Restoring the Baobab wetland: a volunteer-led project in New Delhi
Volunteers are restoring the Baobab wetland in New Delhi; $150 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇮🇳 New Delhi, Delhi, India978 views
The Baobab wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This February, 52 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 69 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.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $150 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $95
• Signage and educational materials: $35
• Waste removal and skip hire: $20
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
Updates from Arun
We're at 21% thanks to 3 of you. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. More news soon.
We're at 15% thanks to 2 of you. the first invoice got paid this week. More news soon.
- Anonymous 🇰🇪 · $50
“Thinking of you. Small amount but sent with love. - Mombasa”
- Vanessa E. Agustin 🇵🇭 · $10
“Best of luck. Only $10 but hope it helps. - Pasig”
- Elise Sarah Martinez 🇫🇷 · $10
- Julia Ida Schröder 🇩🇪 · $12
“Keep your head up - Cologne”
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take care. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Blessings.
thanks for sharing this. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I went through something like this 14 years ago and strangers helped me out!
Hope this works out for you. Love from Amsterdam.
is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Arun.
The list at the bottom is the whole picture. native saplings and stakes is the biggest at $95. I'll keep the page updated.
Sending love, Arun. Looking forward to the next update. Greetings from Tel Aviv
good luck. Looking forward to the next update. Sent it to 16 people at work. God bless.
Looking forward to the next update. We're a small family in Houston but we're thinking of you