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A community fridge for the old Harmony bus depot: help our neighbors in Essen
A community-led a community fridge at the old Harmony bus depot that will serve 187 neighbors.
🇩🇪 Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany1,490 views
For three years the neighborhood has asked for a community fridge. This year a group of 16 volunteers, including the parish youth group, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the old Harmony bus depot, but no funding.
We have received donated timber, and the remaining cost is $2,000.
It will serve about 187 people, including young people who have nowhere safe to play. We'll hold a build day in March 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.
Funds are spent only on materials, permits and safety equipment; all labor is volunteered.
Where the $2,000 goes:
• Safety equipment and signage: $420
• Tools hire and delivery: $155
• Materials: $1,425
Every share and every dollar helps.
Updates from Stefan
Update from Essen: the plan for tools hire and delivery is now scheduled. We're at 24% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
We're at 12% thanks to 9 of you. we've started the first stage. More news soon.
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- Yeshi Kidist Desta 🇪🇹 · $53
- Tabitha Mercy Mugisha 🇹🇿 · $50
- Abril P. Contreras 🇪🇸 · $50
- Ephrem Tadesse Tadesse 🇪🇹 · $50
- Ebba Magnusson 🇸🇪 · $50
“Thinking of you. My cousin told me about this one. - Gothenburg”
- Sofia Alyona Oliynyk 🇷🇺 · $43
- Thomas Schäfer 🇩🇪 · $30
- Jae-won Hyun-jun Yang 🇺🇸 · $30
- Alberto L. Díaz 🇨🇴 · $25
- Theodoros Lefteris Alexiou 🇬🇷 · $25
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- Étienne Paul Collet 🇫🇷 · $25
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- Sarah W. Douglas 🇺🇸 · $25
- Misaki Yamamoto 🇯🇵 · $25
- Liton Sajib Hossain 🇧🇩 · $25
“God bless. Thought of Stefan all day after reading this. - Narayanganj”
- Bartosz Adam Tomaszewski 🇵🇱 · $25
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $25
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Looking forward to the next update. Please keep us posted. Love from Lagos.
Thanks for sharing this, Stefan. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Greetings from Oakland
Wishing you peace, Stefan. Hope this works out for you. All the best.
Hope it all works out, Stefan. Shared it with a few friends. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double.
great idea, hope you get there. Love from Ann Arbor
Sending strength, Stefan. This could happen to any of us. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected. Blessings.