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Restoring the Freedom canal: a volunteer-led project in Galway
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Freedom canal needs $1,400 for saplings and equipment.
🇮🇪 Galway, Connacht, Ireland882 views
The Freedom canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This January, 79 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 198 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, 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 $1,400 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $930
• Waste removal and skip hire: $340
• Signage and educational materials: $130
Thank you so much.
- Conor
Updates from Conor
Small update. $339 so far, we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.
We're at 12% thanks to 6 of you. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. More news soon.
Quick update: $40 raised so far (3%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Christian T. Kirby 🇬🇧 · $250
- Yinka Yinka Ekwueme 🇳🇬 · $74
- Kevin N. Graham 🇺🇸 · $50
- Pandu Aditya Susanto 🇮🇩 · $50
- Thomas M. Stephens 🇺🇸 · $50
“Thought of Conor all day after reading this.”
- Manikandan S. Panicker 🇮🇳 · $49.50
“Praying for you. My mother told me about this one. - Jodhpur”
- Eleanor G. Chambers 🇺🇸 · $31
- Victor Isaac Mba 🇳🇬 · $25
- Dung Kim Ho 🇻🇳 · $25
- Meet G. Chauhan 🇮🇳 · $25
- Kittisak Kamol Wongsawat 🇹🇭 · $25
- Saki Nanami Takagi 🇯🇵 · $20
- Faruk Imran Jahan 🇧🇩 · $12
- Bruna Tatiane Bastos 🇧🇷 · $10
- Parker R. Larson 🇺🇸 · $5
- Manisha Maharjan 🇳🇵 · $5
- Anonymous 🇺🇦 · $5
“Thought of Conor all day after reading this. - Dnipro”
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Hang in there, Conor. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it
Keep going, Conor. This could happen to any of us. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Blessings.
Hope you get there. We're a small family in Busan but we're thinking of you. All the best!
I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Thinking of Galway.
Hope this works out for you. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Thinking of Galway.
I hope things turn around soon. After 6 years in nursing I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Blessings.