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The Harmony canal cleanup and restoration: help our volunteer crew
A neighborhood-led restoration of the Harmony canal needs $2,950 for saplings and equipment.
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada4,125 views
The Harmony canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 66 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 128 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.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $2,950 goes:
• Tools and protective gear: $600
• Waste removal and skip hire: $770
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,580
Thank you for reading my story.
Updates from Dan
Thank you all. We're at 37% now ($1,091). I'm honestly stunned. I made the first payment toward waste removal and skip hire.
- Anna Morrison 🇺🇸 · $250
- Bennett K. Tucker 🇺🇸 · $200
- Nevaeh F. Washington 🇬🇧 · $100
- Shahid Waseem Cheema 🇵🇰 · $100
- Thiago Fábio Silva 🇧🇷 · $100
- Kiran Farah Ahmed 🇵🇰 · $100
- Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $75
- Luke L. Olson 🇺🇸 · $75
- Victoria Morrison 🇺🇸 · $74
“Gave what I could this week. - Cleveland”
- Beatrice Felicia Antwi 🇬🇭 · $58.50
- Jana Greta Otto 🇩🇪 · $56
- Beatriz P. López 🇲🇽 · $50
- Jian Guo Wang 🇺🇸 · $50
- Young-ho Ahn 🇺🇸 · $50
- Paloma L. Guerrero 🇪🇸 · $50
- Wulan Sari Suharto 🇮🇩 · $50
- Jyoti Anand 🇺🇸 · $50
- Shweta E. Gurjar 🇮🇳 · $50
“Praying for you - Warangal”
- Lucky Babatunde Gbadamosi 🇳🇬 · $50
- Takeshi Takeshi Takeda 🇯🇵 · $50
“Take care of yourselves. I'm in Kawasaki, thinking of you.”
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Shared this with my family. My neighbor in London donated after I showed her your page.
Hang in there, Dan. Looking forward to the next update. Put this on a community board in Alexandria this morning.
I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. After 10 years in customer support I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Blessings.