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A repair café workshop: a volunteer-led effort in Cầu Giấy

A community-led a repair café workshop at the old Cedar bus depot that will serve 551 neighbors.

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Diệp Dinh
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Cầu Giấy
For ten years the neighborhood has asked for a repair café workshop. This year a group of 17 volunteers, including two retired carpenters, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the old Cedar bus depot, but no funding. We have received donated timber, and the remaining cost is $600. It will serve about 551 people, including young people who have nowhere safe to play. 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. Funds are spent only on materials, permits and safety equipment; all labor is volunteered. Where the $600 goes: • Tools hire and delivery: $30 • Permits and inspections: $35 • Materials: $535 Thanks for reading all this. - Diệp
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Updates from Diệp

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($693 in total) I made the first payment toward permits and inspections. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  2. We're at 51% thanks to 6 of you. we've started the first stage. More news soon.

  3. Thank you all. We're at 28% now ($168). I'm honestly stunned. the first invoice got paid this week.

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  • Josefa G. DelgadoQuestion

    How is Diệp doing now?

    • Afshan Bisma Sandhu

      stay strong, Diệp. It takes guts to ask. Well done. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Thinking of Cầu Giấy.

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