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A repair café workshop for the Unity health centre yard: help our neighbors in Scranton

Volunteers in Scranton are raising $4,000 for a repair café workshop at the Unity health centre yard.

🇺🇸 Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States4,293 views
Hatem Hamza Wahba
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Scranton
For three years the neighborhood has asked for a repair café workshop. This year a group of 22 volunteers, including the neighborhood football club, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Unity health centre yard, but no funding. We have received donated paint, and the remaining cost is $4,000. It will serve about 467 people, including children, seniors and people with disabilities. We'll hold a build day in July 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 $4,000 goes: • Safety equipment and signage: $410 • Materials: $3,150 • Tools hire and delivery: $440 You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it. - Hatem
#community#volunteer-led#neighborhood

Updates from Hatem

  1. Good news. Because of your gifts ($628 in total) the plan for materials is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

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  • Vivian Favour Ogunleye 🇳🇬 · $10

    “Keep your head up. Thought of Hatem all day after reading this. - Lagos”

  • Mercy Obiageli Nwankwo 🇳🇬 · $55
  • Vino Yoga Hakim 🇮🇩 · $30
  • Kwesi Raymond Bonsu 🇬🇭 · $100
  • Ronnie K. Salvador 🇵🇭 · $100
  • Venkatesh K. Rajan 🇮🇳 · $25
  • Enrico Bruno Pellegrini 🇮🇹 · $25

    “Gave what I could this week. - Padua”

  • Hugo M. Maldonado 🇦🇷 · $25
  • Rachel Adi Ohana 🇮🇱 · $10
  • Cristiane Regina Gonçalves 🇧🇷 · $200
  • Mason K. Estrada 🇺🇸 · $10

    “Take care of yourselves. This is from my last paycheck, glad to do it. - Chicago”

  • Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $100

    “All the best. Saw your post and had to give. - Kota”

  • Camila A. Ríos 🇦🇷 · $70

    “Hope the July deadline works out. - Buenos Aires”

  • Kai D. Russell 🇦🇺 · $5
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    “Blessings. My sister told me about this one. - Jakarta”

  • Haris Irfan Ahmed 🇵🇰 · $30

    “Take care of yourselves. I'm in Rawalpindi, thinking of you. - Rawalpindi”

  • Festus Isaac Williams 🇳🇬 · $20
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    “Best of luck. From Buenos Aires with love.”

  • Sophia K. Armstrong 🇺🇸 · $25

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  • Ananya J. Verma

    Keep going. Shared this with my family. I'll check back for the next update.

    • Sofia Conti

      stay strong. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. God bless!

      • Layla Leila Sabbagh

        Sending strength. Great idea, hope you get there. My daughter saw me on my phone and now she wants to give her pocket money. Greetings from Amsterdam.

        • Esteban L. GuerreroID verified

          Keep going. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Thinking of Scranton.

          • Nuria M. Herrera

            Hope things get better soon. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. Greetings from Multan.

            • Oskar Heinz Fischer

              Sending love, Hatem. Shared this with my family. My husband and I read this together.

              • Evelyn D. Payne

                Sending strength. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day

                $2,043.50 raised of $4,000

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