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The Baobab canal cleanup and restoration: help our volunteer crew

Volunteers are restoring the Baobab canal in Mendoza; $350 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇦🇷 5500, Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina486 views
Beatriz Ávila
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Mendoza
The Baobab canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This September, 84 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 125 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. Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage. Where the $350 goes: • Signage and educational materials: $70 • Tools and protective gear: $125 • Waste removal and skip hire: $155 I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen. - Beatriz

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    “Hope things get better. I'm in Galway, thinking of you.”

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  • Any update on how things are going in Mendoza?

    • Grayson StokesID verified

      Sending good thoughts. Shared it with a few friends. All the best.

      • can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Mendoza.

        • Beatriz ÁvilaOwnerAnswerID verified

          Thank you. If you're in Mendoza I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Thanks for asking.

      • Sending love, Beatriz. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Greetings from Lagos.

        • praying for you. Shared it with a few friends. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Thinking of Mendoza.

          • Wishing you the best, Beatriz. More neighborhoods should do this. Love from Mumbai.

            • I hope things turn around soon. Thinking of Mendoza.

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