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Let's build a repair café workshop together in Bloemfontein
We have the land, the volunteers and the plan for a repair café workshop - we need $900 for materials.
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For three years the neighborhood has asked for a repair café workshop. This year a group of 26 volunteers, including a retired civil engineer, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Cedar community hall, but no funding.
We have received donated a pump, and the remaining cost is $900.
It will serve about 401 people, including local farmers and market traders. 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.
All purchases will be made by two volunteers and logged publicly. Surplus funds will go to maintenance.
Where the $900 goes:
• Tools hire and delivery: $150
• Materials: $670
• Safety equipment and signage: $80
You're what makes this possible, and I'll never forget it.
- Vikash
Updates from Vikash
Update from Bloemfontein: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 35% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.
Thank you all. We're at 22% now ($195). I'm honestly stunned. I made the first payment toward safety equipment and signage.
- Tatsuya Isamu Kato 🇯🇵 · $69.50
- Héctor R. Vega 🇺🇸 · $82
- Tammy N. Johnson 🇺🇸 · $25
“Sending love. Small amount but sent with love. - Lowell”
- Ömer Uğur Çakır 🇹🇷 · $25
“Thought of Vikash all day after reading this. - Istanbul”
- Lorena Aline Melo 🇧🇷 · $25
- Mai Takada 🇯🇵 · $15
- Harold Fields 🇨🇦 · $25
- Quinn N. Franklin 🇺🇸 · $5
- Siyabonga A. Radebe 🇿🇦 · $5
- Rahima Salma Chowdhury 🇮🇳 · $100
- Angel Carr 🇺🇸 · $11.50
“Get well soon. Gave what I could this week. - St. Louis”
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $70
- Daniel Sommer 🇩🇪 · $10
- Raimundo Roberto Gomes 🇧🇷 · $10
- Eunice Joyce Nakamya 🇰🇪 · $30
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $5
“Good luck. Thought of Vikash all day after reading this. - Coventry”
- Jasper Tim Van der Meer 🇳🇱 · $10
- Natalie S. Stone 🇺🇸 · $14
- Naledi H. Buthelezi 🇿🇦 · $50
- Itzel E. Cruz 🇲🇽 · $36
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This could happen to any of us. Sent it to 5 people at work. Blessings.
thanks for sharing this. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. All the best
Wishing you the best. Shared it with a few friends. I hope July is when things finally get easier. All the best.
I hope things turn around soon. Thinking of Bloemfontein.
Sending good thoughts, Vikash. More neighborhoods should do this. Our whole street has been following this since the weekend. Take care.
Hope this works out for you. After 6 years in accounting I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Take care
Hang in there, Vikash. Looking forward to the next update
Hang in there. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. My colleague had a similar thing happen so this one hit home. Take care.
thanks for sharing this, Vikash. More neighborhoods should do this. Greetings from San Nicolás de los Garza.
you're not alone, Vikash. More neighborhoods should do this. I'm in hospitality myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. All the best.
Hope it all works out. Gave what I could, wish it was more. Thinking of Bloemfontein.
I hope things turn around soon. My husband and I read this together. Thinking of Bloemfontein
You're not alone. Great idea, hope you get there. I'm in farming myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you
it takes guts to ask. Well done. It's not much but it's yours. Thinking of Bloemfontein.
Thinking of you, Vikash. Your post was clear and honest. It's not much but it's yours. All the best
sending love, Vikash. Shared it with a few friends