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A repair café workshop for the Unity health centre yard: help our neighbors in Fort Worth
A community-led a repair café workshop at the Unity health centre yard that will serve 271 neighbors.
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For eight years the neighborhood has asked for a repair café workshop. This year a group of 22 volunteers, including local mothers, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Unity health centre yard, but no funding.
We have received donated timber, and the remaining cost is $3,150.
It will serve about 271 people, including young people who have nowhere safe to play. 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 $3,150 goes:
• Safety equipment and signage: $220
• Materials: $2,600
• Permits and inspections: $330
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I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. All the best
Thinking of you and your family, Ximena. Looking forward to the next update. Thinking of Fort Worth.
sending strength. More neighborhoods should do this. I have a 9 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Thinking of Fort Worth.
Rooting for you, Ximena. Great idea, hope you get there. Love from Cluj-Napoca
Sending good thoughts, Ximena. Gave what I could, wish it was more. I'm in nursing myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you.
Rooting for you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I'll check back for the next update.
Sending good thoughts, Ximena. More neighborhoods should do this. Don't be hard on yourself for asking. Take care.
sending love. It takes guts to ask. Well done. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too
Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I went through something like this 10 years ago and strangers helped me out. Take care.
Hope things get better soon. Looking forward to the next update. Greetings from Malmö.
Take care, Ximena. Looking forward to the next update. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Thinking of Fort Worth.
Shared this with my family. My father had a similar thing happen so this one hit home!
Thanks for sharing this, Ximena. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. My husband and I read this together