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A repair café workshop: a volunteer-led effort in Mesa
A community-led a repair café workshop at Jacaranda Park that will serve 390 neighbors.
🇺🇸 Mesa, Arizona, United States3,231 views
For ten years the neighborhood has asked for a repair café workshop. This year a group of 24 volunteers, including the neighborhood football club, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for Jacaranda Park, but no funding.
We have received donated paint, and the remaining cost is $3,800.
It will serve about 390 people, including children, seniors and people with disabilities. We'll hold a build day in April 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 $3,800 goes:
• Materials: $2,500
• Permits and inspections: $260
• Safety equipment and signage: $440
• Tools hire and delivery: $600
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- Bhavna
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This could happen to any of us. Thinking of Mesa!
Looking forward to the next update. Love from Chattogram
Sending love, Bhavna. Hope this works out for you. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. Take care.
Thinking of you, Bhavna. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.
Keep going, Bhavna. Shared this with my family
Thinking of you, Bhavna. It takes guts to ask. Well done. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Love from Makati.
hope things get better soon. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry.