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Restoring the Freedom canal: a volunteer-led project in Amritsar
Volunteers are restoring the Freedom canal in Amritsar; $300 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇮🇳 Amritsar, Punjab, India685 views
The Freedom canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 78 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 194 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 $300 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $105
• Tools and protective gear: $120
• Waste removal and skip hire: $40
• Signage and educational materials: $35
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Hope it all works out, Akash. I hope things turn around soon. Love from Kharkiv.
sending good thoughts. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Amritsar!
Can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Amritsar.
Thank you. If you're in Amritsar I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great.
you're not alone. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too.
Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Greetings from Bacolod.
Keep going, Akash. Hope you get there. Thinking of Amritsar.