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Let's build a free library and reading room together in Tokyo
A community-led a free library and reading room at the old Baobab bus depot that will serve 419 neighbors.
🇯🇵 Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan498 views
For eight years the neighborhood has asked for a free library and reading room. This year a group of 18 volunteers, including local mothers, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the old Baobab bus depot, but no funding.
We have received donated paint, and the remaining cost is $1,500.
It will serve about 419 people, including children, seniors and people with disabilities. 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 $1,500 goes:
• Materials: $880
• Permits and inspections: $75
• Safety equipment and signage: $180
• Tools hire and delivery: $365
I'll keep this page updated with receipts as things happen.
Updates from Misaki
5% there. I made the first payment toward materials. Thank you.
- Hae-won Eun-kyung Hwang 🇰🇷 · $20
“Thought of Misaki all day after reading this. - Mapo”
- Saanvi H. Gill 🇮🇳 · $27
“Take care of yourselves. Saw your post and had to give. - Thiruvananthapuram”
- Valentyna Sidorenko 🇷🇺 · $30
- Ankit C. Meena 🇮🇳 · $50
- Zlata Kuznetsov 🇺🇦 · $9
- Udom Panyarachun 🇹🇭 · $20
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is there a list of costs somewhere? Just curious how it adds up for Misaki.
Materials is $880 of it. Everything else is listed in the story and nothing outside that list comes out of this page. I'll keep the page updated.
Sending love, Misaki. Hope this works out for you. All the best
Stay strong. Hope you get there. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust
Stay strong, Misaki. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too. God bless
Take care, Misaki. Your post was clear and honest. Love from Bhaktapur