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Restoring Unity Beach: a volunteer-led project in Seoul
Volunteers are restoring Unity Beach in Seoul; $1,700 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.
🇰🇷 Seoul, South Korea1,882 views
Unity Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 67 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 198 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $1,700 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $690
• Tools and protective gear: $400
• Waste removal and skip hire: $490
• Signage and educational materials: $120
Thanks for reading all this.
Updates from Eun-kyung
Small update. $1,989 so far, the first invoice got paid this week.
We're at 68% thanks to 12 of you. we've started the first stage. More news soon.
Quick update: $895 raised so far (53%). I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
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wishing you peace, Eun-kyung. Great idea, hope you get there. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Greetings from Kharkiv.
sending good thoughts, Eun-kyung. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Take care
Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Love from Pasig
hang in there, Eun-kyung. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Greetings from Mumbai.