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Restoring the Freedom riverbank: a volunteer-led project in Pune
Volunteers are restoring the Freedom riverbank in Pune; $400 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇮🇳 Maharashtra, India681 views
The Freedom riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This January, 40 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 190 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 $400 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $180
• Tools and protective gear: $40
• Waste removal and skip hire: $140
• Signage and educational materials: $40
Every share and every dollar helps.
- Anand
Updates from Anand
We're at 13% thanks to 4 of you. the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled. More news soon.
Quick update: $14 raised so far (3%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Renata C. García 🇦🇷 · $10
“Hope this helps. Hope you get the rest soon. - Mar del Plata”
- Lefteris Nikolaos Antoniou 🇬🇷 · $26
- Anonymous 🇨🇦 · $10
- Ronke Aisha Nwachukwu 🇳🇬 · $15
“Keep your head up! - Ogbomosho”
- Khadija Amal Rahman 🇺🇸 · $25
- Elena E. Quizon 🇨🇦 · $3.50
- Marcin Marek Michalak 🇵🇱 · $10
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Anand
Sure. The biggest one is native saplings and stakes, $180. The rest is in the list at the bottom of the post and I'll upload receipts as I pay each one. Ask me anything else.
best of luck, Anand. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. All the best.
Wishing you the best, Anand. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Greetings from Lagos.
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.
I hope things turn around soon. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Love from Shubra