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Unity Park needs a repair café workshop - Marcel's neighborhood project
Volunteers in Utrecht are raising $2,350 for a repair café workshop at Unity Park.
🇳🇱 3536 RE, Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands1,078 views
For five years the neighborhood has asked for a repair café workshop. This year a group of 12 volunteers, including the parish youth group, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for Unity Park, but no funding.
We have received donated a pump, and the remaining cost is $2,350.
It will serve about 201 people, including school children and their families. We'll hold a build day in June 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 $2,350 goes:
• Safety equipment and signage: $330
• Materials: $1,550
• Tools hire and delivery: $470
Even a small gift gets used right away and I'll thank you myself.
- Marcel
Updates from Marcel
Good news. Because of your gifts ($116 in total) the plan for tools hire and delivery is now scheduled. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.
- Ceren Çakır 🇹🇷 · $10
“Hope it all works out. - Bursa”
- Marcel Becker 🇩🇪 · $20
“Only $20 but hope it helps. - Berlin”
- Hasan Sajib Biswas 🇮🇳 · $25
- Henry Fosu 🇬🇭 · $91
“Thought of Marcel all day after reading this.”
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So sorry you're going through this, Marcel. Reading this made my day a bit heavier but I'm glad I did. It's not much but it's yours. Take care
You're not alone, Marcel. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Read this on the bus and kept thinking about it all day
thinking of you, Marcel. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in. We had a similar scare last year, I know what it feels like.
Rooting for you, Marcel. Gave what I could, wish it was more.
It takes guts to ask. Well done. Thinking of Utrecht.