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A repair café workshop: a volunteer-led effort in Macon
A community-led a repair café workshop at Maple Primary School that will serve 576 neighbors.
🇺🇸 Macon, Georgia, United States2,218 views
For twelve years the neighborhood has asked for a repair café workshop. This year a group of 19 volunteers, including two retired carpenters, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for Maple Primary School, but no funding.
We have received donated a pump, and the remaining cost is $3,250.
It will serve about 576 people, including young people who have nowhere safe to play. We'll hold a build day in November 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 $3,250 goes:
• Materials: $2,450
• Permits and inspections: $185
• Safety equipment and signage: $230
• Tools hire and delivery: $385
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Best of luck, Kennedy. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I hope November is when things finally get easier. God bless.
Thinking of you, Kennedy. Great idea, hope you get there. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Take care.
Stay strong, Kennedy. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did
Best of luck, Kennedy. Hope you get there. I'm in social work myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. Greetings from Anaheim.
your post was clear and honest. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Thinking of Macon.