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Restoring the Maple hillside: a volunteer-led project in Surabaya
Volunteers are restoring the Maple hillside in Surabaya; $150 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇮🇩 Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia1,028 views
The Maple hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This January, 108 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 95 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, 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 $150 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $50
• Waste removal and skip hire: $60
• Signage and educational materials: $40
If you're reading this, thank you.
- Irma
Updates from Irma
Good news. Because of your gifts ($62 in total) I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Small update. $37 so far, we've started the first stage.
- Seema P. Chauhan 🇮🇳 · $5
- Gustavo G. Ochoa 🇺🇸 · $25
- Manit Prasert Eiamsa-ard 🇹🇭 · $20
- Ayesha Sharmila Ali 🇮🇳 · $17
“Hope it all works out. Thought of Irma all day after reading this. - Mysuru”
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Hope things get better soon, Irma. Gave what I could, wish it was more.
Sending good thoughts, Irma. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust.