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Restoring the Liberty canal: a volunteer-led project in Saket
Volunteers are restoring the Liberty canal in Saket; $300 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
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The Liberty canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This September, 33 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 140 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 $300 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $65
• Native saplings and stakes: $210
• Signage and educational materials: $25
Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure.
Updates from Emon
Small update. $151 so far, the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled.
- Wendy D. Roberts 🇦🇺 · $25
- Anonymous 🇦🇷 · $10
- Rattana Thanaporn Boonmee 🇹🇭 · $135
- Anonymous 🇧🇩 · $50
“Take care of yourselves. Thought of Emon all day after reading this. - Savar”
- Chiamaka Jumoke Odukoya 🇳🇬 · $100
- Verónica E. Campos 🇪🇸 · $26
“Blessings. Only $26 but hope it helps. - Barcelona”
- Carlos Raúl Guerrero 🇦🇷 · $25
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Hope things get better soon. More neighborhoods should do this. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Blessings
Hope things get better soon, Emon. Great idea, hope you get there. Please keep us posted.
Take care, Emon. More neighborhoods should do this. All the best!
hope you get there. We're a small family in Rajshahi but we're thinking of you.
thinking of you, Emon. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like.
Take care. Gave what I could, wish it was more. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. All the best.
Hope things get better soon. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Love from Hannover
Thanks for sharing this, Emon. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Take care.