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The Baobab hillside cleanup and restoration: help our volunteer crew

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Baobab hillside needs $1,450 for saplings and equipment.

🇩🇪 North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany1,868 views
Werner Winkler
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Dortmund
The Baobab hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This April, 39 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 101 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 $1,450 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $530 • Tools and protective gear: $320 • Waste removal and skip hire: $420 • Signage and educational materials: $180 With deep gratitude, Werner
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Werner

  1. Wanted to say thank you properly. 20% funded and I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.

  2. We're at 16% thanks to 5 of you. the plan for waste removal and skip hire is now scheduled. More news soon.

  3. Small update. $70 so far, I met with the nursery and confirmed the amounts.

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  • Reagan E. Kim

    Hope it all works out. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. My husband and I read this together. Blessings

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