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Let's build a community fridge together in Seoul

A community-led a community fridge at the Jacaranda vacant lot that will serve 204 neighbors.

🇰🇷 Seoul, Seoul, South Korea910 views
Ga-eun Eun-kyung Han
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For eight years the neighborhood has asked for a community fridge. This year a group of 15 volunteers, including local mothers, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Jacaranda vacant lot, but no funding. We have received donated volunteer hours worth about $810, and the remaining cost is $2,200. It will serve about 204 people, including elderly neighbors living alone. 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 $2,200 goes: • Permits and inspections: $85 • Materials: $1,850 • Tools hire and delivery: $265 Thanks for reading all this. - Ga-eun
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  1. Update from Seoul: I made the first payment toward materials. We're at 15% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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  • Zainab Dalia MebarekQuestion

    can I help in a way that isn't money? I'm near Seoul

    • Ga-eun Eun-kyung HanOwnerAnswerPhoto verified

      Thank you. If you're in Seoul I'll say if something practical comes up. For now sharing this is great. Happy to explain more.

  • Andrés B. PérezPhoto verified

    hope things get better soon, Ga-eun. More neighborhoods should do this. We're a small family in Los Angeles but we're thinking of you. Take care.

    • Kaylee K. Andrews

      Wishing you the best, Ga-eun. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. I'll check back for the next update. Love from London.

      • Dmytro Viktor Vorobiev

        Take care, Ga-eun. This could happen to any of us. My neighbor had a similar thing happen so this one hit home

        • Joshua Schultz

          Thinking of you and your family. More neighborhoods should do this. Please keep us posted. Greetings from Comilla.

          • Kemi Omolara AnyanwuID verified

            this could happen to any of us. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. God bless!

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