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Restoring the Sycamore canal: a volunteer-led project in Polokwane
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Sycamore canal needs $350 for saplings and equipment.
🇿🇦 Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa225 views
The Sycamore canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 61 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 79 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 $350 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $170
• Signage and educational materials: $45
• Waste removal and skip hire: $135
Every share and every dollar helps.
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Sending love, Ruan. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it.
hang in there, Ruan. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in
thinking of you. Gave what I could, wish it was more. We're a small family in Benin City but we're thinking of you. God bless.
Thinking of you. Shared this with my family. Thinking of Polokwane
Can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Polokwane.
Thank you. If you're in Polokwane I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great.
Hope it all works out, Ruan. Shared it with a few friends. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry!
sending strength, Ruan. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Thinking of Polokwane.
Thinking of you and your family, Ruan. Looking forward to the next update. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too
keep going. I hope things turn around soon. I went through something like this 4 years ago and strangers helped me out.
Sending good thoughts, Ruan. This could happen to any of us. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Take care.
Praying for you, Ruan. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. God bless.