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Restoring the Cedar riverbank: a volunteer-led project in Pokhara
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Cedar riverbank needs $150 for saplings and equipment.
🇳🇵 Pokhara, Gandaki, Nepal699 views
The Cedar riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 100 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 113 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.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $150 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $15
• Waste removal and skip hire: $90
• Tools and protective gear: $45
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
- Subash
Updates from Subash
Update from Pokhara: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 53% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
Thank you all. We're at 19% now ($29). I'm honestly stunned. the first invoice got paid this week.
13% there. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Thank you. - Subash
- Nirali H. Chavan 🇮🇳 · $55
“Hang in there. Only $55 but hope it helps. - Pune”
- Daisuke Shota Takeda 🇯🇵 · $50
- Kiran Afshan Jilani 🇵🇰 · $19
- Arnel G. Mendoza 🇺🇸 · $10
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Rooting for you. Your post was clear and honest. I'll check back for the next update. Thinking of Pokhara.
Sending love, Subash. Shared it with a few friends. Love from Aswan.
Hang in there, Subash. Great idea, hope you get there. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.