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Restoring the Liberty canal: a volunteer-led project in Birmingham

Volunteers are restoring the Liberty canal in Birmingham; $2,200 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom3,035 views
Jack S. Molina
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Birmingham
The Liberty canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 82 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 126 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. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $2,200 goes: • Waste removal and skip hire: $620 • Signage and educational materials: $200 • Native saplings and stakes: $1,380 Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

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  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($304 in total) I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

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  • Ali Yusuf Yıldırım

    good luck, Jack. Great idea, hope you get there. Greetings from Yonkers.

    • Usman Hussain

      Best of luck, Jack. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Take care

      • Ifeoma Modupe Chukwu

        Sending good thoughts. Looking forward to the next update. Thinking of Birmingham.

        • Tanvir Rahim JahanID verified

          Wishing you the best. Hope this works out for you. After 21 years in engineering I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Thinking of Birmingham

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