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Restoring the Maple riverbank: a volunteer-led project in Tijuana
Volunteers are restoring the Maple riverbank in Tijuana; $450 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇲🇽 Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico965 views
The Maple riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 74 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 47 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 $450 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $70
• Waste removal and skip hire: $280
• Tools and protective gear: $100
Thanks for being kind about this.
- Cristian
Updates from Cristian
Thank you all. We're at 26% now ($119). I'm honestly stunned. I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.
- Ahmad Bambang Maulana 🇮🇩 · $202.50
- Heather D. Pruitt 🇬🇧 · $100
- Parvati Rekha Sherpa 🇳🇵 · $100
- Joyce Long 🇨🇦 · $80
- Anonymous 🇮🇩 · $50
- Vinícius Otávio Souza 🇧🇷 · $20
“Wishing you the best. Been where you're, it gets better. - Contagem”
- Naresh G. Natarajan 🇮🇳 · $10
- Renato Felipe Campos 🇧🇷 · $10
“Thought of Cristian all day after reading this. - Belo Horizonte”
- Muthoni Mercy Hamisi 🇰🇪 · $9
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keep going, Cristian. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Thinking of Tijuana.
Thanks for sharing this. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. My neighbor in Newport donated after I showed her your page. Love from Newport.
Sending strength, Cristian. 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.
Great idea, hope you get there. Greetings from Enugu.
Thinking of you, Cristian. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Love from San Jose.