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A covered market stall space for the Lotus community hall: help our neighbors in Shinjuku

A community-led a covered market stall space at the Lotus community hall that will serve 142 neighbors.

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Yuki Yuto Hirano
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Shinjuku
For eight years the neighborhood has asked for a covered market stall space. This year a group of 12 volunteers, including local mothers, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Lotus community hall, but no funding. We have received donated tools, and the remaining cost is $1,850. It will serve about 142 people, including children, seniors and people with disabilities. We'll hold a build day in September 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 $1,850 goes: • Safety equipment and signage: $290 • Permits and inspections: $165 • Materials: $1,395 I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen. - Yuki
#community#volunteer-led#neighborhood

Updates from Yuki

  1. Update from Shinjuku: I made the first payment toward safety equipment and signage. We're at 22% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. Small update. $90 so far, I made the first payment toward permits and inspections.

  3. Small update. $75 so far, I made the first payment toward permits and inspections.

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    “Take care of yourselves. Thought of Yuki all day after reading this. - Dnipro”

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    “Happy to help. Small amount but sent with love. - Braunschweig”

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  • Vitaly Leonid Volkov

    Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. We're a small family in Busan but we're thinking of you. Love from Busan

    • Wayne F. Rowe

      stay strong, Yuki. Shared this with my family. Take care.

      • Abdul Pavel Hossain

        wishing you peace, Yuki. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. Thinking of Shinjuku

        • Michelle H. Ashworth

          rooting for you, Yuki. Your post was clear and honest. My late mom used to say help given quietly counts double. Thinking of Shinjuku

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