The Eden Park Community Project is advocating for residents and fighting for environmental justice—including demanding that the Marathon Oil refinery pay for air quality monitors for the area. The project would create a much-needed green space and gardens in Michigan’s most polluted zip code, 48217. The park would not only bring beauty to the multi-generational families in the neighborhood, but also serve as a buffer to mitigate the area’s dangerous corporate-caused air pollution.
The park’s green space would help rectify some of the long-term damage that has led to children’s elevated blood lead levels, high infant mortality rates, and high rates of health problems like asthma and cancer.
But the Eden Park Community Project needs funds in order to buy and develop the plot of uninhabited land for the project. In preparation, community volunteers have been periodically cleaning up the property, once the site of a Detroit public school.
Please donate $5, $10, or as much as you can to the Eden Park Community Project’s fight for environmental justice.
The Eden Park Community Project is a project of the Tri-City Community Development Corporation, a 501c3 charitable non-profit. All contributions will go toward our fight for environmental justice.