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A covered market stall space for Freedom Primary School: help our neighbors in Fukuoka
A community-led a covered market stall space at Freedom Primary School that will serve 91 neighbors.
🇯🇵 Fukuoka, Japan1,531 views
For three years the neighborhood has asked for a covered market stall space. This year a group of 11 volunteers, including a group of teenagers, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for Freedom Primary School, but no funding.
We have received donated volunteer hours worth about $640, and the remaining cost is $1,400.
It will serve about 91 people, including school children and their families. We'll hold a build day in December 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 $1,400 goes:
• Materials: $610
• Permits and inspections: $165
• Safety equipment and signage: $230
• Tools hire and delivery: $395
If you're reading this, thank you.
Updates from Shinji
Small update. $190 so far, we've started the first stage. - Shinji
Thank you all. We're at 37% now ($523). I'm honestly stunned. I met with the suppliers and confirmed the amounts.
- Ha-joon Jin-woo Lee 🇰🇷 · $10
- Gloria Figueroa 🇨🇦 · $100
“Wishing you the best. My father told me about this one. - Winnipeg”
- Mitu Salma Sultana 🇮🇳 · $10
- Anonymous 🇵🇭 · $200
- Emma W. Baker 🇺🇸 · $15
“Thought of Shinji all day after reading this. - Houston”
- Lucas P. Jacobs 🇦🇺 · $50
- Karina P. Escobar 🇺🇸 · $5
“You got this. Hope the December deadline works out. - Austin”
- Isabel C. Abad 🇵🇭 · $75
- Dimas Kurniawan Gozali 🇮🇩 · $5
- Claudia Schulte 🇩🇪 · $10
- Stefan Werner 🇩🇪 · $10
- Sarah M. Santiago 🇦🇺 · $50
- Jennifer F. Howard 🇺🇸 · $50
- Teresa H. Ruiz 🇪🇸 · $98
- Ethan Thompson 🇺🇸 · $25
- Kidist Tsion Haile 🇪🇹 · $10
- Ika Dewi Wardana 🇮🇩 · $25
- Marta Tilahun 🇪🇹 · $50
- Leonardo T. Sims 🇬🇧 · $5
- Xiu Fang 🇺🇸 · $75
“Blessings. From Philadelphia with love.”
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Keep going, Shinji. Shared it with a few friends. It's not much but it's yours. Blessings.
Sending strength, Shinji. Hope this works out for you. After 7 years in engineering I know how hard it's to ask for anything.
Take care, Shinji. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. All the best.
How is Shinji doing now?
Wishing you peace, Shinji. It takes guts to ask. Well done.
Rooting for you, Shinji. I hope things turn around soon. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Love from Olinda.
Praying for you, Shinji. I hope things turn around soon. Love from Mecca
sending strength, Shinji. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Put this on a community board in Surabaya this morning!
Good luck, Shinji. Gave what I could, wish it was more. It's not much but it's yours.
Wishing you the best, Shinji. Hope you get there. After 20 years in social work I know how hard it's to ask for anything.