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Restoring the Freedom hillside: a volunteer-led project in El Paso

Volunteers are restoring the Freedom hillside in El Paso; $2,150 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇺🇸 El Paso, Texas, United States1,239 views
Clara S. Jensen
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El Paso
The Freedom hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 107 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 182 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 $2,150 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $1,050 • Tools and protective gear: $370 • Waste removal and skip hire: $520 • Signage and educational materials: $210 I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen. - Clara
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Clara

  1. Quick update: $931 raised so far (43%). we've started the first stage. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

  2. Good news. Because of your gifts ($699 in total) we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  3. Quick update: $299 raised so far (14%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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  • Tithi Shahana Sikder

    Hope this works out for you. Wish I lived closer to Ubud so I could bring a meal. Thinking of El Paso.

    • Praveen J. Gounder

      Good luck. Great idea, hope you get there. Don't give up. God bless

      • Ronke Adebayo

        Keep going, Clara. I hope things turn around soon. Please keep us posted. All the best.

        • Mathilda Heike Huber

          Hope it all works out. Hope this works out for you. After 26 years in customer support I know how hard it's to ask for anything. God bless.

          • Nadia Zahra Rashid

            Thinking of you and your family. This could happen to any of us. Take care.

            $1,500.50 raised of $2,150

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