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Restoring the Union hillside: a volunteer-led project in Tarkwa
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Union hillside needs $300 for saplings and equipment.
🇬🇭 Tarkwa, Western, Ghana1,258 views
The Union hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 74 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 41 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 $300 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $140
• Tools and protective gear: $75
• Waste removal and skip hire: $60
• Signage and educational materials: $25
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Updates from Solomon
Good news. Because of your gifts ($140 in total) I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
Small update. $199 so far, I made the first payment toward tools and protective gear.
Small update. $130 so far, I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.
- Mohammad Habib Ghosh 🇧🇩 · $100
“Sending love. Gave what I could this week. - Rajshahi”
- Janina Nowicki 🇵🇱 · $75
- Nihal Ayşe Acar 🇹🇷 · $59
- Victor Victor Shittu 🇳🇬 · $50
- Anonymous 🇲🇽 · $25
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $25
- Paula C. Díaz 🇺🇸 · $10
- Ayesha Ayesha Khan 🇵🇰 · $10
- Natalie R. Marshall 🇺🇸 · $5
- Clodagh E. Dunne 🇮🇪 · $3
“Hang in there. Thought of Solomon all day after reading this. - Kilkenny”
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stay strong, Solomon. Shared it with a few friends. I went through something like this 13 years ago and strangers helped me out. Love from Quezon City