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Restoring the Lotus hillside: a volunteer-led project in Mansoura
Volunteers are restoring the Lotus hillside in Mansoura; $255 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇪🇬 Mansoura, Dakahlia, Egypt1,503 views
The Lotus hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 55 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 61 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 $255 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $80
• Tools and protective gear: $55
• Waste removal and skip hire: $115
• Signage and educational materials: $5
Thanks for reading all this.
- Duha
Updates from Duha
Update from Mansoura: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 33% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
Good news. Because of your gifts ($19 in total) we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- William Kwame Tawiah 🇬🇭 · $50
“Blessings. From Takoradi with love.”
- Amelia S. Peters 🇬🇧 · $20
- Jamal Samir Bouzid 🇪🇬 · $19
“Hope things get better. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Heliopolis”
- Sundar R. Rajan 🇮🇳 · $15.50
“Take care of yourselves. Thought of Duha all day after reading this.”
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Sending love, Duha. It takes guts to ask. Well done. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it!
can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Mansoura
Thank you. If you're in Mansoura I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Fair thing to want to know.
Hope things get better soon, Duha. More neighborhoods should do this.
Thinking of you. This could happen to any of us. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Blessings.