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The Acacia hillside cleanup and restoration: help our volunteer crew

Volunteers are restoring the Acacia hillside in Belo Horizonte; $900 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

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Márcio Caio Melo
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Belo Horizonte
The Acacia hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This June, 49 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 123 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 $900 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $520 • Tools and protective gear: $110 • Waste removal and skip hire: $200 • Signage and educational materials: $70 Whatever you can give, even just sharing this page, means a lot.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Márcio

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($635 in total) the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. Update from Belo Horizonte: we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. We're at 70% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  3. Thank you all. We're at 62% now ($555). I'm honestly stunned. the plan for signage and educational materials is now scheduled.

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  • Anonymous 🇯🇲 · $20
  • Anonymous 🇨🇦 · $10

    “God bless. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Brampton”

  • Manasi R. Sawant 🇮🇳 · $50
  • Usman Irfan Iqbal 🇵🇰 · $200
  • Okta Lestari 🇮🇩 · $50
  • Nada Taghreed Darwish 🇲🇦 · $25
  • Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $100
  • Bakari Dennis Opio 🇹🇿 · $25
  • Christopher G. Ramos 🇺🇸 · $5
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  • Sade Obiageli Lawal 🇳🇬 · $10

    “Sending love. My cousin told me about this one. - Gwagwalada”

  • Lamia Nipa Jahan 🇧🇩 · $10

    “Hang in there. Thought of Márcio all day after reading this. - Gazipur”

  • Camelia Monica Matei 🇷🇴 · $50

    “Be well. From București with love. - București”

  • Anonymous 🇺🇦 · $75
  • Suresh H. Chaturvedi 🇺🇸 · $405
  • Shapla Sharmin Biswas 🇮🇳 · $75

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  • Inés F. Ochoa

    Keep going, Márcio. Shared it with a few friends. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money.

    • Emmanuel Armah

      thinking of you. Your post was clear and honest. We're a small family in Glasgow but we're thinking of you. Thinking of Belo Horizonte

      $1,115 raised of $900

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