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Saturday, 23 March 2019

Repair Café > "acquiring and enhancing technical and entrepreneurial skills while raising awareness on issues of sustainability and the circular economy"

Next Saturday sees the next Sidmouth Repair Café:
Futures Forum: Sidmouth Repair Café > Saturday 30th March

Today sees lots and lots of such events happening all over the country:
New West Bridgford Repair Café launches this month • West Bridgford Wire
Repair Cafe event in Ambleside | The Westmorland Gazette

And all over the world:
Fix, Don't Toss: Green Summit Hosts Second Repair Café Mar. 23 | TAPinto
Repair Café Oss voorziet ook na 5 jaar in een duidelijke behoefte | Oss e.o. | bd.nl
Repair café à Ivry-sur-Seine : réparer au lieu de jeter | 94 Citoyens
Hallenberg soll ein Repair-Café bekommen | wp.de | Altkreis Brilon

And some are going really hi-tech:
Dertigste Repair Café, mét demonstratie 3D-printen | Eeklo | Regio | HLN

It's about many things - including sharing skills.

Click on the photo for a video from Australia:



A team of handy Australian men and women are turning trash into treasures. They're fighting back against our disposable society by sharing their skills and expertise to save broken items headed for the landfill. VOA's Julie Taboh has more.

Repair Café Teaches Skills to Turn Trash into Treasure - Voice of America News

And here's a video from a college in Belgium:




The project aims to mobilise the students to repair dysfunctional devices belonging to the inhabitants of the community around the school. This allows both technical and vocational students to face concrete problems similar to those that they will confront in their future professional life. It also strengthens their links with their local community, in particular with the elderly and disadvantaged people. Finally, it helps them to acquire and enhance their technical and entrepreneurial skills while raising their awareness on issues of sustainability and circular economy.

Repair Café | Ashoka | Everyone a Changemaker
Repair Café - YouTube
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