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Restoring the Maple riverbank: a volunteer-led project in Madrid
Help us clean and replant the Maple riverbank before the September planting window closes.
🇪🇸 Madrid, Madrid, Spain2,845 views
The Maple riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 66 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 167 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 $1,650 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $850
• Tools and protective gear: $240
• Waste removal and skip hire: $390
• Signage and educational materials: $170
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
- Arturo
Updates from Arturo
Update from Madrid: we've started the first stage. We're at 55% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
- Ika Rahayu Purnomo 🇮🇩 · $200
- Daniel Omer Katz 🇮🇱 · $100
- Joko Galih Siregar 🇮🇩 · $100
- James Kipchoge Byaruhanga 🇰🇪 · $100
- Irina Natalia Bondarenko 🇷🇺 · $100
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $75
- Ayaka Kumiko Ota 🇯🇵 · $75
- Laiba Javeria Siddiqui 🇵🇰 · $75
“Thought of Arturo all day after reading this. - Faisalabad”
- Fatema Sathi Miah 🇧🇩 · $50
- Kanya Anong Intharat 🇹🇭 · $50
“God bless. My cousin told me about this one. - Bangkok”
- Aarón H. Bravo 🇲🇽 · $50
“Best of luck. Hope you get the rest soon. - Xalapa”
- Meenakshi G. Venkatesh 🇮🇳 · $50
- Fiona D. Pienaar 🇿🇦 · $50
“Thinking of you. My brother told me about this one. - Paarl”
- Indira G. Menon 🇮🇳 · $50
“Praying for you. Thought of Arturo all day after reading this. - Nagpur”
- Tharun T. Venkatesh 🇮🇳 · $50
- Roberto R. Ochoa 🇨🇴 · $50
- Carmen N. Contreras 🇪🇸 · $42
- Alok J. Shukla 🇮🇳 · $30
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $30
- Thijs Martijn Hermans 🇳🇱 · $30
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Rooting for you, Arturo. This could happen to any of us.
So sorry you're going through this, Arturo. Your post was clear and honest.
Hope things get better soon, Arturo. More neighborhoods should do this.
Hope things get better soon. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. I went through something like this 12 years ago and strangers helped me out. All the best
Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Please keep us posted. Thinking of Madrid.
So sorry you're going through this. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Thinking of Madrid!
Sending good thoughts. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Wish I lived closer to Mukono so I could bring a meal.
great idea, hope you get there. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Blessings!
You're not alone, Arturo. This could happen to any of us.
Rooting for you, Arturo. Looking forward to the next update. Blessings.
Thinking of you, Arturo. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Greetings from Accra.