OUR SMALL COMMUNITY WORK

While speaking about volounteering we agreed that it would be nice and valuable to do some work in local environment in order to make it nicer. While seeking for needs we found out a story about local wells. There are three wells that local people were using for drinkable water before pluming arrived. After that for some period of time none was taking care about it. A year ago, NGO Pozitiva Samobor started a journey to give those wells former glory. Therefore we decided to put some effort in that story. We took initiative with clear idea of making it cleaner and easier approchable. After collecting appropriate tools we left towards wells. As soon as we arrived a pile of trash was found near by. Half an hour later there was no more :)

Also we cleaned water path so water from spring can float and be nicer to fetch some fantastic natural water. Also surrounding was cleaned from leafs and big stones.

We also cleaned and widened path towards wells, so local citizens can approach them easier.

After all work was done it was time for some reward. So we collected plenty of fallen dry branches to bring back to Greenville for the nice evening enjoyment arround fire pit with guitar celebrating nature and out initiative. Good vibes that we felt is hard to describe so here our story will end but we hope we tackeld your imagination and woken up some will to do something similar in your own reality...

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