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Restoring the Maple hillside: a volunteer-led project in Lagos
Volunteers are restoring the Maple hillside in Lagos; $350 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇳🇬 Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria453 views
The Maple hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 80 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 83 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 $350 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $185
• Tools and protective gear: $75
• Waste removal and skip hire: $45
• Signage and educational materials: $45
Ask me anything below before you decide. I'd rather you were sure.
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Best of luck, Yinka. More neighborhoods should do this.
Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Yinka.
Everything on the list is an amount I've been quoted or invoiced. native saplings and stakes comes first ($185) and I'll update the page as each thing gets paid. Fair thing to want to know.
Best of luck, Yinka. Shared this with my family. Blessings.
Good luck. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. My neighbor in Siliguri donated after I showed her your page.
Hope it all works out, Yinka. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes.
Hope it all works out. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Thinking of Lagos.
how is Yinka doing now?
Wishing you peace. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Greetings from San Nicolás de los Garza
Hope things get better soon, Yinka. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. God bless.
Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Put this on a community board in Manchester this morning. All the best
thinking of you and your family, Yinka. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My husband and I read this together. Blessings.
Stay strong, Yinka. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Take care