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Restoring Union Beach: a volunteer-led project in San Diego
Volunteers are restoring Union Beach in San Diego; $1,550 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇺🇸 San Diego, California, United States1,958 views
Union Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This December, 33 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 176 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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 $1,550 goes:
• Signage and educational materials: $170
• Tools and protective gear: $590
• Native saplings and stakes: $790
I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
- Howard
Updates from Howard
Thank you all. We're at 60% now ($934). I'm honestly stunned. the first invoice got paid this week.
- Rudi Heru Yuliani 🇮🇩 · $25
- Raymond J. Oliver 🇺🇸 · $15
“Every little bit. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Lexington”
- Sun-woo Young-ho Moon 🇺🇸 · $20
- Enrique P. Franco 🇺🇸 · $100
- Vasyl Vadym Danylenko 🇷🇺 · $30
- Russell R. Calloway 🇺🇸 · $25
- Noman Rahim Mondal 🇧🇩 · $50
- Milena Vorobiev 🇷🇺 · $50
- Jayanthi P. Nayak 🇮🇳 · $25
- Omar Saeed Nabulsi 🇪🇬 · $10
- Derek Mejia 🇺🇸 · $30
- Blessing Esther Odukoya 🇳🇬 · $20
- Glenroy N. Clarke 🇯🇲 · $100
- Anonymous 🇳🇵 · $5
- Winnie Atim Kariuki 🇰🇪 · $50
- Madhu P. Thakur 🇮🇳 · $5
- Anonymous 🇵🇱 · $100
- Abril H. Pacheco 🇪🇸 · $30
“Only $30 but hope it helps. - Granada”
- Gustavo Rafael Gonçalves 🇧🇷 · $15
“Blessings. Thought of Howard all day after reading this. - Campinas”
- Shahid Khalid Siddiqui 🇵🇰 · $10
“Wishing you the best. Hope the March deadline works out. - Lahore”
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Sending good thoughts, Howard. This could happen to any of us. Thinking of San Diego!
Praying for you. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. My neighbor in Mapo donated after I showed her your page
Wishing you peace. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Greetings from Nha Trang