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Restoring the Maple hillside: a volunteer-led project in Orlando

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Maple hillside needs $2,700 for saplings and equipment.

๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 32853, Orlando, Florida, United States1,217 views
Victoria S. Castillo
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Orlando
The Maple hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 81 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 138 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 $2,700 goes: โ€ข Waste removal and skip hire: $700 โ€ข Tools and protective gear: $540 โ€ข Native saplings and stakes: $1,460 Thanks for reading all this.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Victoria

  1. Small update. $593 so far, I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes.

  2. Thank you all. We're at 7% now ($195). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for native saplings and stakes is now scheduled.

  3. Update from Orlando: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 6% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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    โ€œGood luck. Thought of Victoria all day after reading this. - Caloocanโ€

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    โ€œThinking of you - Newcastle upon Tyneโ€

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    โ€œBe well. I'm in Chicago, thinking of you.โ€

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    โ€œGod bless. Gave what I could this week. - Quettaโ€

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    โ€œGood luck. Thought of Victoria all day after reading this. - Aucklandโ€

  • Aisha Achieng Kiptoo ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ ยท $296
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    โ€œAll the best! - Gdaล„skโ€

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    โ€œFrom my family to yours. Gave what I could this week. - Bucureศ™tiโ€

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    โ€œGod bless. My brother told me about this one. - Athensโ€

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    โ€œThought of Victoria all day after reading this. - Colomboโ€

  • Oliver M. Gilbert ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ยท $20

    โ€œAll the best. Thought of Victoria all day after reading this. - Londonโ€

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  • Aditya Vino Wijaya

    wishing you the best. This could happen to any of us. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it

    • Anjana RathnamAddress verified

      Great idea, hope you get there. Love from Kathmandu.

      • Jae-won Min-jun ChoID verified

        Wishing you peace, Victoria. I hope things turn around soon. After 18 years in accounting I know how hard it is to ask for anything. Blessings

        • Tomasz Jakub KoniecznyPhoto verified

          Keep going, Victoria. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in.

          • Swati L. Mittal

            Thinking of you, Victoria. Gave what I could, wish it was more. My neighbor in Warsaw donated after I showed her your page

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