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Restoring the Sycamore hillside: a volunteer-led project in Bang Khen
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Sycamore hillside needs $500 for saplings and equipment.
🇹🇭 Bang Khen, Bangkok, Thailand1,302 views
The Sycamore hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 38 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 68 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.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $500 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $55
• Native saplings and stakes: $240
• Waste removal and skip hire: $205
Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
- Opas
Updates from Opas
Quick update: $322 raised so far (64%). we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
Thank you all. We're at 48% now ($242). I'm honestly stunned. the first invoice got paid this week.
Quick update: $30 raised so far (6%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Wahyu Lukman Tampubolon 🇮🇩 · $200
- Abubakar Olumide Gbadamosi 🇳🇬 · $20
- Beatrice Naliaka Waweru 🇰🇪 · $50
- Adriana J. Zamora 🇪🇸 · $25
- Dolores C. Paredes 🇨🇴 · $25
- Femke Van den Heuvel 🇳🇱 · $30
“Take care of yourselves. Thought of Opas all day after reading this. - Amsterdam”
- Letícia Juliana Azevedo 🇧🇷 · $50
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $137
- Sakura Fumiko Fukuda 🇯🇵 · $25
“Get well soon. My mother told me about this one. - Shinjuku”
- Fitria Zahra Pratama 🇮🇩 · $50
- Eliane Amanda Gomes 🇧🇷 · $10
- Titilayo Yetunde Adebayo 🇳🇬 · $10
- Diego B. Arias 🇪🇸 · $10
“Be well. Hope the August deadline works out. - Seville”
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Hope it all works out, Opas. Shared it with a few friends. Put this on a community board in Wudil this morning!
Thinking of you and your family, Opas. It takes guts to ask. Well done. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Thinking of Bang Khen
Take care, Opas. This could happen to any of us. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it!
wishing you peace. Shared this with my family. Love from Istanbul
How is Opas doing now?
Hang in there, Opas. Your post was clear and honest.
Keep going, Opas. Shared it with a few friends. I have a 14 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Blessings
Thinking of you and your family, Opas. This could happen to any of us. Sent it to 25 people at work. Love from Chiang Mai
Good luck. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My neighbor in Zapopan donated after I showed her your page
You're not alone. Gave what I could, wish it was more. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like. Thinking of Bang Khen.
rooting for you. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Please keep us posted. Thinking of Bang Khen.
Sending strength, Opas. Hope this works out for you. All the best.
hope things get better soon, Opas. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in.