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Restoring the Jacaranda hillside: a volunteer-led project in Houston
Help us clean and replant the Jacaranda hillside before the September planting window closes.
🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States994 views
The Jacaranda hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 44 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 119 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the city parks department, 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 $2,800 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,550
• Tools and protective gear: $400
• Waste removal and skip hire: $610
• Signage and educational materials: $240
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
- Carlos
Updates from Carlos
Update from Houston: I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. We're at 20% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
4% there. I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Thank you.
- Remedios R. Valdez 🇵🇭 · $69
- Aiden S. Rose 🇺🇸 · $5
- Joseph Collins Byaruhanga 🇰🇪 · $25
- Silvia A. González 🇨🇴 · $11
- Anonymous 🇵🇰 · $50
“Wish I could do more. Thought of Carlos all day after reading this. - Multan”
- Emery H. Santiago 🇺🇸 · $75
- Tayo Usman Balogun 🇳🇬 · $12
“Hope this helps. Only $12 but hope it helps. - Gwagwalada”
- Alice W. Grant 🇺🇸 · $100
- Hassan Waleed Kamel 🇪🇬 · $250
- Patrick T. Watkins 🇺🇸 · $10
- Khadija Duha Haddad 🇪🇬 · $50
- Samuel E. Perry 🇦🇺 · $5
“Hang in there. Thought of Carlos all day after reading this. - Gold Coast”
- Wekesa Tumusiime Juma 🇰🇪 · $35
- Daniele Christian Silvestri 🇮🇹 · $30
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Best of luck, Carlos. More neighborhoods should do this.
Praying for you, Carlos. It takes guts to ask. Well done.
So sorry you're going through this, Carlos. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes.