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Restoring the Liberty canal: a volunteer-led project in Paris
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Liberty canal needs $900 for saplings and equipment.
🇫🇷 Île-de-France, France1,848 views
The Liberty canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 46 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 53 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the district council, 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 $900 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $125
• Native saplings and stakes: $390
• Waste removal and skip hire: $385
I hope life is good to you.
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Good luck, Philippe. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Love from Nairobi.
Sending love. Looking forward to the next update. I have a 15 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Love from Manila.
Thinking of you and your family. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Love from Wollongong
hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. God bless.
projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Take care
Hope it all works out. I hope things turn around soon. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend.