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The old Baobab bus depot needs a community fridge - Carmen's neighborhood project

Volunteers in Cambridge are raising $3,500 for a community fridge at the old Baobab bus depot.

🇺🇸 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States2,885 views
Carmen M. Salazar
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Cambridge
For twelve years the neighborhood has asked for a community fridge. This year a group of 13 volunteers, including the parish youth group, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the old Baobab bus depot, but no funding. We have received donated a pump, and the remaining cost is $3,500. It will serve about 254 people, including school children and their families. We'll hold a build day in December 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 $3,500 goes: • Materials: $2,500 • Tools hire and delivery: $660 • Permits and inspections: $340 Thank you for reading my story. - Carmen
#community#volunteer-led#neighborhood

Updates from Carmen

  1. Update from Cambridge: the plan for materials is now scheduled. We're at 56% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. Good news. Because of your gifts ($1,013 in total) I made the first payment toward permits and inspections. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

Donations

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  • Anonymous 🇮🇹 · $478
  • Chidi Gbenga Odukoya 🇳🇬 · $250

    “All the best. Thought of Carmen all day after reading this. - Gwagwalada”

  • Anonymous 🇫🇷 · $200
  • Charlene T. Zulu 🇿🇦 · $100
  • Nazrul Rahman 🇧🇩 · $100
  • Maria T. Flores 🇵🇭 · $100
  • Nathan Carpentier 🇫🇷 · $100
  • Brooklyn A. Matthews 🇬🇧 · $100
  • Quentin Valentin Roger 🇫🇷 · $100
  • Rosângela Letícia Moraes 🇧🇷 · $100

    “Praying for you. Hope the December deadline works out. - Vitória da Conquista”

  • Taylor Alexander 🇺🇸 · $100
  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $75
  • Ali Waleed Hamdan 🇪🇬 · $74

    “Stay strong. Only $74 but hope it helps. - Cairo”

  • Skylar H. Robertson 🇺🇸 · $65

    “Only $65 but hope it helps. - San Antonio”

  • Fabiana Márcia Teixeira 🇧🇷 · $64

    “All the best. Hope the December deadline works out. - Ribeirão Preto”

  • Adel Zakaria Al-Farsi 🇸🇦 · $59
  • Chamari Chamari Silva 🇱🇰 · $58.50
  • Jyoti L. Oberoi 🇮🇳 · $56

    “You got this. Only $56 but hope it helps. - Nagpur”

  • Anonymous 🇮🇳 · $50
  • María G. Jiménez 🇪🇸 · $50

    “Keep your head up. I'm in Málaga, thinking of you. - Málaga”

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  • Viraj Yapa

    Thinking of you and your family, Carmen. Hope you get there. Don't be hard on yourself for asking

    • Emery G. PetersAddress verified

      Stay strong, Carmen. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. Blessings

      • Paul Hahn

        praying for you. Everyone deserves a bit of help sometimes. It's not much but it's yours. Greetings from Epe.

        • Vikash B. Maharaj

          Praying for you. I hope things turn around soon. After 18 years in farming I know how hard it's to ask for anything. Take care.

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