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A repair café workshop for the old Baobab bus depot: help our neighbors in São Paulo

A community-led a repair café workshop at the old Baobab bus depot that will serve 513 neighbors.

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Eduardo Leonardo Batista
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São Paulo
For eight years the neighborhood has asked for a repair café workshop. This year a group of 21 volunteers, including a retired civil engineer, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the old Baobab bus depot, but no funding. We have received donated timber, and the remaining cost is $550. It will serve about 513 people, including elderly neighbors living alone. We'll hold a build day in June 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 $550 goes: • Tools hire and delivery: $90 • Materials: $340 • Safety equipment and signage: $120 Thanks for reading all this. - Eduardo

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  • Sending love. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Blessings

    • Sending good thoughts. I hope things turn around soon. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day. Take care.

      • Wishing you the best, Eduardo. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected.

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