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Restoring the Cedar wetland: a volunteer-led project in Dhaka
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Cedar wetland needs $400 for saplings and equipment.
🇧🇩 Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh1,569 views
The Cedar wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 113 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 151 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the district council, 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 $400 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $220
• Tools and protective gear: $70
• Waste removal and skip hire: $95
• Signage and educational materials: $15
Thanks for reading all this.
Updates from Mim
Good news. Because of your gifts ($221 in total) the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
15% there. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Thank you. - Mim
Small update. $55 so far, the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled.
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $10
- Peace Damilola Bankole 🇳🇬 · $10
- Shahana Shirin Mukherjee 🇮🇳 · $100
“Take care of yourselves. Hope you get the rest soon. - Warangal”
- Marcos C. Muñoz 🇺🇸 · $61
- Bilal Ali Ghanem 🇪🇬 · $5
- Jordan Sanchez 🇳🇿 · $50
- Carol W. Holland 🇬🇧 · $5
“From my family to yours. Thought of Mim all day after reading this. - Coventry”
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Hang in there, Mim. I hope things turn around soon. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too
Sending good thoughts, Mim. Your post was clear and honest. All the best
Take care, Mim. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. We're a small family in Cambridge but we're thinking of you.
Thinking of you, Mim. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust
Thinking of you and your family. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Thinking of Dhaka.