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Restoring the Liberty canal: a volunteer-led project in Lahore
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Liberty canal needs $150 for saplings and equipment.
🇵🇰 54025, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan268 views
The Liberty canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 118 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 81 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 $150 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $30
• Tools and protective gear: $25
• Waste removal and skip hire: $95
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
Updates from Saad
Update from Lahore: the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. We're at 78% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
Thank you all. We're at 33% now ($49). I'm honestly stunned. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.
Good news. Because of your gifts ($19 in total) the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Eliane Sandra Carvalho 🇧🇷 · $20
- Reiko Noriko Ishikawa 🇯🇵 · $67.50
- Komal G. Bhatt 🇮🇳 · $20
- Tuva Pettersson 🇸🇪 · $10
“Get well soon. Thought of Saad all day after reading this.”
- Elise Émilie Poirier 🇨🇦 · $19
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Wishing you peace. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. I have a 10 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Thinking of Lahore
thinking of you and your family, Saad. Shared it with a few friends. We're a small family in Nijmegen but we're thinking of you.
Sending love. Great idea, hope you get there. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Love from Tiruchirappalli.