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The Sycamore community hall needs a community garden - Elena's neighborhood project
Volunteers in Coyoacán are raising $850 for a community garden at the Sycamore community hall.
🇲🇽 Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, Mexico1,309 views
For three years the neighborhood has asked for a community garden. This year a group of 16 volunteers, including the parish youth group, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Sycamore community hall, but no funding.
We have received donated timber, and the remaining cost is $850.
It will serve about 387 people, including elderly neighbors living alone. We'll hold a build day in October and everyone is invited.
We're a small team, and every dollar will be spent in the open - I'll post receipts and progress photos.
All purchases will be made by two volunteers and logged publicly. Surplus funds will go to maintenance.
Where the $850 goes:
• Permits and inspections: $125
• Materials: $630
• Tools hire and delivery: $95
Glad we found this place.
- Elena
Updates from Elena
Good news. Because of your gifts ($447 in total) we've started the first stage. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Toàn Khang Huynh 🇻🇳 · $100
- Chae-won Ji-woo Nam 🇰🇷 · $100
- Brenda Cortez 🇺🇸 · $75
- Ruwini Wickramasinghe 🇱🇰 · $70.50
- Raphaël Laurent 🇫🇷 · $50
- Nolan T. Rojas 🇨🇦 · $50
- Sathi Rima Ahmed 🇧🇩 · $50
- Diya C. Yadav 🇮🇳 · $50
- Reagan K. Wong 🇬🇧 · $50
- Anonymous 🇦🇺 · $25
- Alamin Milon Akter 🇮🇳 · $25
- Supriya D. Vyas 🇮🇳 · $25
- Eunice Beatrice Ssemwogerere 🇹🇿 · $20
“Rooting for you. Thought of Elena all day after reading this. - Dar es Salaam”
- Rizky Candra Hidayat 🇮🇩 · $20
“Stay strong. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Medan”
- Gabriel N. Ibáñez 🇺🇸 · $20
- Funmilayo Vivian Nnamdi 🇳🇬 · $20
“Hope it all works out. Only $20 but hope it helps. - Bonny”
- Lourdes J. Castillo 🇺🇸 · $20
- Arthur Henri Jacquet 🇫🇷 · $20
“God bless. I'm in Marseille, thinking of you.”
- Akello Ouma 🇺🇬 · $15
- Anjali E. Dwivedi 🇮🇳 · $10
“Happy to help. Saw your post and had to give. - Mangaluru”
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Your post was clear and honest. Put this on a community board in Dortmund this morning
Hope things get better soon. More neighborhoods should do this. Greetings from Niterói
Thinking of you. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. It's not much but it's yours. Blessings
This could happen to any of us. I have a 17 year old who wants to send good wishes too. All the best.