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Restoring the Sycamore riverbank: a volunteer-led project in Istanbul
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Sycamore riverbank needs $350 for saplings and equipment.
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The Sycamore riverbank has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 104 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 175 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 $350 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $175
• Native saplings and stakes: $150
• Signage and educational materials: $25
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
- Uğur
Updates from Uğur
Good news. Because of your gifts ($35 in total) I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Thank you all. We're at 3% now ($10). I'm honestly stunned. the first invoice got paid this week. - Uğur
- Zain Nadeem Siddiqui 🇵🇰 · $25
- Dennis N. McDaniel 🇬🇧 · $14
- Ricardo H. Peña 🇦🇷 · $10
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Keep going. Great idea, hope you get there. Wish I lived closer to Manila so I could bring a meal. Thinking of Istanbul.
hope it all works out. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Thinking of Istanbul.
keep going, Uğur. Looking forward to the next update. I went through something like this 13 years ago and strangers helped me out. God bless.