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Restoring the Freedom hillside: a volunteer-led project in Nashik
Volunteers are restoring the Freedom hillside in Nashik; $250 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇮🇳 Maharashtra, India1,472 views
The Freedom hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 86 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 125 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $250 goes:
• Waste removal and skip hire: $55
• Tools and protective gear: $65
• Native saplings and stakes: $130
Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself.
- Apurva
Updates from Apurva
Wanted to say thank you properly. 36% funded and I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.
34% there. I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. Thank you.
- Vanessa Macaraeg 🇨🇦 · $25
“Only $25 but hope it helps. - Brampton”
- Tuva Arvidsson 🇸🇪 · $24
- Yevhen Gleb Borisov 🇺🇦 · $10
- Bohdan Yaroslav Dmitriev 🇷🇺 · $10
“Thinking of you. Thought of Apurva all day after reading this.”
- Sumon Tanvir Sen 🇧🇩 · $5
- Anonymous 🇳🇬 · $25
- Mariana Tatiane Teixeira 🇧🇷 · $10
- Liliana T. Avila 🇺🇸 · $50
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Best of luck. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. God bless.