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Restoring the Pioneer canal: a volunteer-led project in Sydney
Volunteers are restoring the Pioneer canal in Sydney; $3,300 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia1,767 views
The Pioneer canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 101 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 98 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $3,300 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,900
• Tools and protective gear: $400
• Waste removal and skip hire: $740
• Signage and educational materials: $260
I hope life is good to you.
- Eli
Updates from Eli
Quick update: $125 raised so far (4%). I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- George Lawrence Ntim 🇬🇭 · $200
“Best of luck! - Takoradi”
- Giulia Emma Esposito 🇮🇹 · $100
- Sebastião Albuquerque 🇧🇷 · $50
- Ramon R. Magsaysay 🇵🇭 · $50
- Courtney F. Boyd 🇺🇸 · $50
- Nabil Mahmoud Farouk 🇸🇦 · $42
- Matteo Russo 🇮🇹 · $25
- Alice E. Vega 🇬🇧 · $25
“Happy to help! - Edinburgh”
- Quyên Nhung Phung 🇻🇳 · $25
“Wishing you the best. My brother told me about this one.”
- Lakshmi F. Sastry 🇮🇳 · $20
“Hope things get better. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Noida”
- Sasithorn Nattaya Nakpong 🇹🇭 · $20
- Deepak C. Gupta 🇺🇸 · $20
- Romain Le Roux 🇫🇷 · $15
“Rooting for you - Saint-Étienne”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $10
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $10
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $5
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Is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Eli
The list at the bottom is the whole picture. native saplings and stakes is the biggest at $1,900. Fair thing to want to know.
Hang in there. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Thinking of Sydney